If you have two or more machines, you may wish to share disk space or devices, such as a CD drive, between machines. For this there is network filesystem (NFS), the easiest way of sharing files and ...

Fresh install of Win2k3 R2.<BR><BR>Fired up the NFS server, shared out a volume as NFS, went to our Linux file server, mounted the volume, fired off rsync -- heart ache.<BR><BR>All of the file writes ...

We have been having an internal debate, not really so much a heated fists to face kind of debate, but more discussions, around the merits or performance impacts of running mySQL databases across NFS.