NFS sucks

I started using NFS the other day because I realized I wanted to have transparent access to my server so that I could deploy Tomcat applications there easily (more easily than with FTP, SCP or CVS, at least). Well, it turns out NFS is complicated on its own. When I asked about NFS in #debian, someone told apt to tell me what NFS is. Quoth the bot: “NFS, or Not Fucking Secure: The Networked Filesystem from Sun.” Among the other replies in the room were that it “never fucking works,” or that “when it does, it works poorly at best.” If you care about stuff like this, read on…