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Cc: dima <_pppp@mail.ru>
Subject: Re: is NFS production-ready ?
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On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 17:59:50 +0400
dima <_pppp@mail.ru> wrote:

> > On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 11:26:40PM +0400, dima wrote:
> > > 3. Is at least implementation of NFS client (either kernel-side or
> > > user-space) stable enough for production use? Client OS
> > > replacement is impossible (hardly suitable, really) in my project.
> > 
> > I built a big mail/web cluster a few years ago using FreeBSD 4.x
> > (4.6.2 I think), where all the front-ends used NFS to access data
> > on a shared fileserver platform (NetApp). It worked without a
> > hitch, and still does.
> 
> What is the reaction on network/NAS failure?
> I mean, I'm about to provide transparent storage service in the case
> of failures of different types.

Not sure about currently, but it use to have a problem with if there
was a failure, it would go into a wait state forever. I've not run into
this in a very long time and this was suppose to have been fixed a
month or two ago.