From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 28 8:49:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD25637BF3F for ; Fri, 28 Apr 2000 08:49:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e3SGIgG13240; Fri, 28 Apr 2000 09:18:42 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 09:18:42 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Vinum over NFS? Message-ID: <20000428091842.A12959@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20000428203244.A886@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000428203244.A886@physics.iisc.ernet.in>; from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in on Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 08:32:44PM +0530 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Rahul Siddharthan [000428 09:00] wrote: > Hi, > We need to set up an NFS fileserver which will serve around 10-20 machines. > The hardware would preferably be Intel, for cost reasons, though > fairly high-end (say a Pentium III 550+ MHz, 256 MB RAM, SCSI disks). > The expected exported volume would be perhaps 50-60 GB. > Is it a good idea to export a vinum volume over NFS? How reliable is > FreeBSD's NFS for this kind of situation -- I've heard that both > FreeBSD and Linux have some way to go to catch up with commercial > unixen in NFS? Any other suggestions? FreeBSD's NFS is top notch in 4.x, the only problem is lack of a lockd, there is a lockd being worked on, however you'll have to do a search of the mailing lists to get the beta version of it right now it only serves locks, but doesn't do the client side locking. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message