Best Way To Keep A Drive Always Mounted

[Bill Janssen]

> > Does anyone recommend NFS?
> 
> NFS is lightweight, fast and works fine at least up until Tiger  
> (can't tell about Leopard). It's weak spot is it's connection-less  
> protocol and thereof resulting lack of user authentication. You  
> should put a reliable firewall between your NFS shares and the public.

I get terrible client-side performance (throughput) from my Mac Pro
over a gigabit switched network to our NFS file servers.  Using NIS
automount of the NFS shares.  I've always just figured the OS X NFS
drivers weren't up to snuff (similar Linux machines get great
throughput over the same network to the same file servers), but maybe
I have something misconfigured?

Bill