From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 28 16:16:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8565437B9D1 for ; Fri, 28 Apr 2000 16:16:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id IAA79726; Sat, 29 Apr 2000 08:46:24 +0930 (CST) Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 08:46:24 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Vinum over NFS? Message-ID: <20000429084624.C79469@freebie.lemis.com> References: <20000428203244.A886@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <20000428203244.A886@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 28 April 2000 at 20:32:44 +0530, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > Hi, > We need to set up an NFS fileserver which will serve around 10-20 machines. > The hardware would preferably be Intel, for cost reasons, though > fairly high-end (say a Pentium III 550+ MHz, 256 MB RAM, SCSI disks). > The expected exported volume would be perhaps 50-60 GB. > Is it a good idea to export a vinum volume over NFS? NFS doesn't know about the volume, it just knows about the file system. There's no reason why it shouldn't be on a Vinum volume. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message