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by agazso 5533 days ago
I hate NFS for the same reasons that you just wrote, but to be honest it is not a protocol issue, but rather an implementation issue.

If NFS were implemented totally in userspace (like FTP), it would not hang the entire system when something breaks. On the other hand, it would be much slower than it is, therefore it would be unsuitable for a lot of use-cases where it is used now.
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moe 5533 days ago
NFS hangs the system on failures because it is a shoddy implementation, not because it happens to be implemented in kernel space.

I think the old CVS quote by Tom Lord applies here:

  CVS has some strengths. It's a very stable piece of
  code, largely because nobody wants to work on it anymore.
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