"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
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For everything else there is Linux. Massively robust and functional.
Thouugh it did go doolally trying to transer a 15 Mbyte file via NFS to a
remote machines on the net...NFS is a fine protocol, but not over links
that occasioally do down..:-)


NFS is an awful protocol.
It doesn't keep state.
Other processes can open the same file and write bits to it without the
other processes being aware.
That is why so many programs use stupid lockfiles to give some attempt and
stopping files with part data from other processes being created.
It works as long as all the processes are written to look for the lockfile
but it sure ain't a good protocol.