From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Aug 20 19:01:30 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id TAA02694 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 20 Aug 1995 19:01:30 -0700 Received: from aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw ([140.109.40.248]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA02686 for ; Sun, 20 Aug 1995 19:01:19 -0700 Received: (from taob@localhost) by aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA28810; Mon, 21 Aug 1995 10:00:26 +0800 Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 10:00:24 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao To: Terry Lambert cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Making a FreeBSD NFS server In-Reply-To: <9508201948.AA23045@cs.weber.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 20 Aug 1995, Terry Lambert wrote: > > The whole idea of stateful NFS would be a gross violation of municipal > power grid consistency. 8-). :) > The NFSv3 is not default with FreeBSD, and it's not there for BSDI at > all as far as I know. I suppose that means async writes + UPS if one wants a fast FreeBSD server then. Has someone made some sort of hardware add-on to PC's like a miniature PrestoServe (say, with a max of 64 megs of cache) with drivers for FreeBSD so it can flush data out to disk after a reboot? That would be nifty. -- Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org