Managing NFS and NIS, 2nd Edition - Mike Eisler [7]
This book would not have been completed without the help of many people. I'd like to thank Brent Callaghan, Chuck Kollars, Neal Nuckolls, and Janice McLaughlin (all of Sun Microsystems); Kevin Sheehan (Kalli Consulting); Vicki Lewolt Schulman (Auspex Systems); and Dave Hitz (H&L Software) for their neverending stream of answers to questions about issues large and small. Bill Melohn (Sun) provided the foundation for the discussion of computer viruses. The discussion of NFS performance tuning and network configuration is based on work done with Peter Galvin and Rick Sabourin at Brown University. Several of the examples of NIS and NFS configuration were taken from a system administrator's guide to NFS and NIS written by Mike Loukides for Multiflow Computer Company.
The finished manuscript was reviewed by: Chuck Kollars, Mike Marotta, Ed Milstein, and Brent Callaghan (Sun); Dave Hitz (H&L Software); Larry Rogers (Princeton University); Vicky Lewold Schulman (Auspex); Simson Garfinkel (NeXTWorld); and Mike Loukides and Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.). This book has benefited in many ways from their insights, comments, and corrections. The production group of O'Reilly & Associates also deserves my gratitude for applying the finishing touches to this book. I owe a tremendous thanks to Mike Loukides of O'Reilly & Associates who helped undo four years of liberal arts education and associated writing habits. It is much to Mike's credit that this book does not read like a treatise on Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment.[2]
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[2] I think I will cause my freshman composition lecturer pain equal to the credit given to Mike, since she assured me that reading and writing about Crime and Punishment would prepare me for writing assignments the rest of my life. I have yet to see how, except possibly when I was exploring performance issues.
Acknowledgments for the second edition
Thanks to Pat Parseghian (Transmeta), Marc Staveley (Sun), and Mike Loukides (O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.) for their input to the outline of the second edition.
All the authors thank John Corbin, Evan Layton, Lin Ling, Dan McDonald, Shantanu Mehendale, Anay S. Panvalkar, Mohan Parthasarathy, Peter Staubach, and Marc Staveley (all of Sun); Carl Beame and Fred Whiteside (both of Hummingbird); Jeanette Arnhart; and Katherine A. Olsen, all for reviewing specific chapters and correcting many of our mistakes.
After we thought we were done writing, it fell to Brent Callaghan, David Robinson, and Spencer Shepler of Sun to apply their formidable expertise in NFS and NIS to make numerous corrections to the manuscript and many valuable suggestions on organization and content. Thank you gentlemen, and we hope you recognize that we have taken your input to heart.
Thanks to our editor, Mike Loukides, for giving us quick feedback on our chapters, as well as riding herd when we weren't on schedule.
Hal Stern's acknowledgments
More than a decade has gone by since the first edition of this book, during which I've moved three times and started a family. It was pretty clear to me that the state of networking in general, and NFS and NIS in particular, was moving much faster than I was, and the only way this second edition became possible was to hand over the reins. Mike Eisler and Ricardo Labiaga have done a superb job of bridging the technical eon since the first edition, and I thank them deeply for their patience and volumes of high-quality work. I also owe Mike Loukides the same kudos for his ability to guide this book into its current form. Finally, a huge hug, with ten years of interest, to my wife, Toby, who has been reminding me (at least weekly) that I left all mention of her out of the first edition. None of this would have been possible without her encouragement and support.
Mike Eisler's acknowledgments
First and foremost, I'm grateful for the opportunity Hal and Mike L. gave me to contribute to this edition.
I give thanks to my wife, Ruth, daughter, Kristin, and son, Kevin, for giving their husband and father