Rachel's advice, "Kick NFS to the curb", is good. My last startup, blekko (2007-now), managed to have no NFS usage, ever. Didn't miss it. Peak of 50 devs, 1500 servers, no NFS.
Even before that, in a supercomputing context (2002-), when writing MPI "wrapper" software that would be used on end-user clusters with all kinds of unfortunate network setups, I avoided a lot of trouble by copying the executable to the local node before running it.
This isn't a new issue. And the traditional solutions work.
Even before that, in a supercomputing context (2002-), when writing MPI "wrapper" software that would be used on end-user clusters with all kinds of unfortunate network setups, I avoided a lot of trouble by copying the executable to the local node before running it.
This isn't a new issue. And the traditional solutions work.