From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 13 3:32:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from malkav.snowmoon.com (machine-126-237.cdcsd.k12.ny.us [208.20.126.237]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5708214FF7 for ; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 03:32:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jaime@malkav.snowmoon.com) Received: (qmail 55681 invoked from network); 13 Dec 1999 11:32:22 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO localhost.snowmoon.com) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 13 Dec 1999 11:32:22 -0000 Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 06:32:21 -0500 (EST) From: Jaime Kikpole To: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Merging 2 servers? In-Reply-To: <19991213101919.C22122@lucifer.bart.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: > > Does anyone have any advise about NIS, NFS, keeping two servers > >but replacing one, adding RAID (and booting from it, preferably) to the > >older server, or any other possible improvement? > > If you want to use NFS, make sure you move that 3.0-R box to something > more 3.3-STABLE, or even 3.4-RC since there have been fixed quite some > annoyances with NFS. Thanks. I was planning on upgrading it once I had the time to put aside a full day for it, just in case something went wrong. > But what is exactly the situation you are wanting to go to? Are you > looking for a more centralised means of administration? That isn't > clear to me (then again my mind is foggy due to my cold). Well, for starters I'm wondering if I even need two servers. What advantages would there be to keeping the students on a separate server than the staff? I'm also wondering if it would be possible to make a less expensive configuration by merging the two servers into one. Specifically, if it might not be a better idea to move the staff to the newer server and just add a second big RAID-5 array for their home directories. (Complain this to moving all functions of the older "staff" server to a completely new server. I'm sure that the array would cost less than an array and a server, but would it be a wise decision in the long term.) Any suggestions? Jaime To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message