> There are historical reasons why "NFS" expands to "Nightmare File System"...
> the thing is, it performs faster than Samba or Coda, so it gets used, even
> though it has a number of annoying problems.  Most of the kernel panics I've
> seen have been caused by flaky hardware--but NFS and "don't install this
> kernel module, it's not even beta yet" are tied for second.

To be fair, these were mostly problems in the Linux NFS implementation,
not the design of NFS itself. That said, I push huge amounts of data
over NFSv3 on Linux and haven't had any recent problems.