These reports really make my mind more mixed. Maybe, it is safe
presently to use nfs. In two weeks, I will get new Xserves and see
what happens,
If you're using 10.4 as of 10.4.11 reliability is fairly good if you
use the dumbtimer mount option ("dumbtimer,soft,intr,timeo=10"). I
would strongly recommend that you stress-test your server to find out
how the system behaves under heavy, multi-client load as that's where
we've had almost all of our problems (and where you can least afford
them). To be fair, AFP rolled over and died so quickly that we
couldn't even get to that point.
If you're using 10.5 NFS stability has been significantly improved -
we've been migrating over quickly as Leopard fixed the NFS, automount
and DirectoryService issues which were responsible for almost all of
our involuntary reboots (and considerably reduced the frequency with
which a simple data compression job causes the remaining panics).
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