Henning Brauer writes: 

> On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 08:38:11PM +0000, Dan Melomedman wrote:
>> 0% NFS box failure doesn't mean 0% application failure which thinks NFS 
>> share is a regular FS. 
> 
> Show me a single Maildir access failure related to Maildir on NFS opposed to
> Maildir on local disk.

I wasn't just speaking for Maildirs. NFS very often requires synchronized 
clocks and uid space, Sqwebmail is a good example. Also, if you read qmail 
code, you'll notice some NFS-related tweaks. 

> Improper implemented, yes.

And improper design also. Portmapper is a good example.

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