Beta 2.5 kernel?

Ron Peterson ron.peterson at yellowbank.com
Thu Aug 29 21:40:33 EDT 2002


On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 09:18:01PM -0400, Robert La Ferla wrote:

> Has anyone tried out the beta 2.5 kernels?  How stable are they?  What 
> does 2.5 offer over 2.4?  Is it worth trying???

The thing I think I'm looking forward to the most is NFSv4 support,
which I believe was just recently being rolled into the 2.5 series.
NFSv3 is insecure.  AFS has the requisite features to be considered a
viable secure distributed filesystem, but has never really caught on.  I
hat to say it, but SMB, for all of its flaws, remains a legitimate
contender.

How do you set up a cluster of Linux workstations to have secure access
to a shared filesystem?  It's a bitch.

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