NFS book recommendation

Kurt Wall kwall
Tue Sep 14 15:14:12 PDT 2004


On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 02:50:27PM -0500, Shawn L Johnston took 32 lines to write:
> On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 14:40, Kurt Wall wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 03:15:02PM -0400, ejbr at comcast.net took 13 lines to write:
> > > Well, I've almost given up on getting NFS to work - OSX server and Linux 
> > > client.  I've googled until I'm blind.  I even tried reaching the 
> > > nfs-client maintainer, but kept getting 403's.  I've narrowed the problem 
> > > (I think) to READDIRPLUS - tracking through ethereal, it seems that's 
> > > where the error lies.  So, any recommendations on a good book that covers 
> > > NFS?  Thanks.
> > 
> > Linux NFS and Automounter Administration
> > Erek Zadok
> > ISBN 0782127398
> > 
> > Probably available used. Zadok is the guy who wrote the amd automount
> > daemon, so I think he knows his business.
> > 
> > Kurt.
> 
> I have "Managing NFS and NIS" (O'Reilly) by Hal Stern, Mike Eisler, and
> Ricardo Labiaga. ISBN is 1-56592-510-6
> 
> I haven't looked at Erek's book, do you think its better Kurt?

The O'Reilly book is good, but the Sybex one is more relevant, IMHO, to
Linux. YMMV.

Kurt
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