Re: nis +

[Dave Sherohman <esper@sherohman.org>]

On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 01:37:43AM -0400, Roderick Cummings wrote:
> Maybe he has confused nis and nfs. Although I'm not sure why nfs should be a 
> kernel space daemon either. Maybe for performance reasons, or maybe just the 
> range of things NFS must do calls for it.

While I'm sure that performance had something to do with the decision to
write the kernel NFS code in the first place, the main reason that people
have it built into their (Linux) kernels is for the capabilities.  Under
Linux, the kernel nfsd is able to handle file locks over NFS and the user
space nfsd is not.

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