From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Jan 16 20:51:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mail.inr.net (mail.inr.net [198.77.208.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4368114E80 for ; Sun, 16 Jan 2000 20:51:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mylists@inr.net) Received: from wakko (wakko.inr.net [198.77.208.4]) by mail.inr.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA74669 for ; Sun, 16 Jan 2000 23:51:50 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20000116235116.00a42210@mail.inr.net> X-Sender: mylists@mail.inr.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 23:51:16 -0500 To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG From: "N.B. DelMore" Subject: Shared File Systems Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message