Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 03:30:44 -0800 (PST) From: "R. B. Riddick" <arne_woerner@yahoo.com> To: Frans Haarman <F.Haarman@giessen.nl>, freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ggate or nfs Message-ID: <219218.46894.qm@web30312.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <2DC959620A73E842969792F5B47FCA0102AE4AEA@dg-exch1.giessen.nl>
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--- Frans Haarman <F.Haarman@giessen.nl> wrote: > Hi, we are running a pretty intesive Backup solution which stores the > contents of the backup in 256KB files on NFS. > We are often loosing our NFS mounts, and suspect more troubles with NFS. > Ohoh > I was wondering: > a) Would you use ggate instead of NFS > Nope... :-) Because: If NFS fails, ggate might have the same problem... Somehow I would try to find out, why NFS fails... And finally: NFS allows multiple write access, while ggate can only allow one single write access... > b) How good this ggatec & ggated is running in production > The ggate code is newer than the NFS implementation... ggate's approach is much easier, but might react more funny on ur special situation. > c) What tests you would recommend > Setup a reference (test) system and try to use it as ur backup file server (BUT: Do not forget ur real (production) backup during the test)... :) -Arne ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss an email again! Yahoo! Toolbar alerts you the instant new Mail arrives. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/mail/
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