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Date:      Sun, 16 Jan 2000 23:51:16 -0500
From:      "N.B. DelMore" <mylists@inr.net>
To:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Shared File Systems
Message-ID:  <3.0.6.32.20000116235116.00a42210@mail.inr.net>

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I find myself in desperate need to impliment some sort of centralized file
system (RAID 5) that can be shared by multiple servers, eg. mail, web,
shell etc.

To that end, we recently implemented a single 200 GB RAID array using
(forgive me) RH 6, and the DPT SmartRAID V controller (I waited for months
hoping that FreeBSD support for this controller would appear as promised by
DPT early last year).  But we probably will convert this to FreeBSD as soon
as the drivers become available and are proven to be stable.

Currently, its only being used as a mail spool; sendmail and cucipop
delivering mail to the users 'home' directory (hashed spools), but I would
really like to begin using it for other purposes as well, e.g. for some of
our web hosting services.

However, I keep reading about how NFS is not the ideal manner in which to
impliment this due to a number of reasons.

I'd appreciate some advice from my fellow ISP's.  Am I on the right path or ?

Thanks
Noel









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