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Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 16:47:04 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Jay Tribick <lists@fastnet.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: RAID/NFS Integration into FreeBSD
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On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Jay Tribick wrote:

> Within a couple of weeks I'm going to be implementing a RAID/NFS
> solution into our existing ISP. Do I have any alternatives to
> using NFS (surely someone must have made a better Network Filesystem
> by now). Is the recent advent of BSD NFS Flock'ing stable enough to
> be used in a commercial environment?

No clue. We have a lockd but whether that does anything useful is anyone's
guess.

> What software will I need to use (if any) to use a RAID array on
> a BSD box?

Buy a DPT SCSI controller or use ccd.

> 
> L8rz
> 
> KrOnUs <kronus@null.net>
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Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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