Re: NFS vs. HTTP

[John <red computerdatasafe com au>]

On 29 Jan 2003, Tony Vickers wrote:

> Why is it that everyone is using NFS and not HTTP? It seems to me that
> many people have a lot of problems with NFS. Is there something that I'm
> missing?
> 

With nfs, you can have anything available to your %post script(s) you
want. Getting it to the client with limited knowledge of the environment
is fairly easy as you can parse /proc/mounts to discover where the
server and base of the install tree are.

I switched from NFS to HTTP because of my internal firewall, and I
discovered it not so simple getting my customisation scripts to the
client.

Not impossible, or even especially difficult, but inconveniently
different.




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