From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 18 09:14:13 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Delivered-To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24DDC16A4DA for ; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 09:14:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (lurza.secnetix.de [83.120.8.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A46943D49 for ; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 09:14:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (gpkdap@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k7I9E46L004518 for ; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 11:14:10 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.13.4/8.13.1/Submit) id k7I9E47p004517; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 11:14:04 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from olli) Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 11:14:04 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <200608180914.k7I9E47p004517@lurza.secnetix.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <44E0C450.8050602@fsn.hu> X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-net User-Agent: tin/1.8.0-20051224 ("Ronay") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/4.11-STABLE (i386)) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.1.2 (lurza.secnetix.de [127.0.0.1]); Fri, 18 Aug 2006 11:14:10 +0200 (CEST) Cc: Subject: Re: Redundant/failover NFS servers - stale NFS file handle X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 09:14:13 -0000 Attila Nagy wrote: > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > We use NetApp Filer clusters (NAS) for that purpose. > > They aren't cheap, but they work very well. > > I don't like blackboxes with nice GUIs. :) But they do exactly what you need. I doubt that you can build the same functionality with Linux. BTW, I never use the GUI. I just log into them with ssh; works perfectly fine. It's only seldomly required anyway, once the boxes are set up and running. BTW, as far as I know, they run a BSD-derived embedded OS (with micro kernel?), so there's at least a little bit of BSD in that "blackbox". ;-) Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. cat man du : where Unix geeks go when they die