From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Jan 11 8:37:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ipfw.org (cr308584-a.wlfdle1.on.wave.home.com [24.103.112.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE9C637B41A for ; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 08:37:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from apollo (apollo.objtech.com [192.168.111.5]) by mail.ipfw.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CC6A312D; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 11:37:06 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 11:37:06 -0500 From: Peter Chiu X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.53bis) Reply-To: Peter Chiu X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <8938301694.20020111113706@yahoo.com> To: Arcady Genkin Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org, gtabug Subject: Re: gtabug - production NFS server -- which OS to go? In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG http://kerneltrap.org/article.php?sid=415 I would suggest running that fsx program against your box and take it from there. Friday, January 11, 2002, 10:49:37 AM, you wrote: AG> Does anyone know of a good, unbiased evaluation of AG> Solaris/Linux/FreeBSD as NFS server? Preferably third-party. We are AG> facing hardware/software upgrade at the computer lab of around 300 AG> workstations (half Linux, half Solaris). We have a Solaris/Sparc box AG> for our NFS server right now, but it will be upgraded to something. AG> The question is: what? AG> Since most of the clients are Linux (Solaris workstations are probably AG> going to be replaced by i386 boxes with Linux), it would kinda make AG> sense to have Linux for NFS server, but in the past I heard Bad Things AG> about the NFS server side of Linux. If, say, FreeBSD could be shown AG> to be a serious contender, this may be the chance to introduce some AG> BSD boxes into our environment. The boss leans towards Solaris, our AG> Linux resident ;) wants Linux; I'm the only one with any *BSD exposure AG> *and* I'm the new kid on the block. So, if there are any arguments AG> for FreeBSD, they need to be especially convincing. ;^) AG> Any pointers would be highly appreciated, -- Peter \\|// (o o) +-------------------------oOOo-(_)-oOOo-----------------------------+ EMail : mailto:pccb(at)yahoo(dot)com PGPkey : http://www.pchiu.com/pgpkey.txt PGP fingerprint: 5167 897D A043 423E 9266 E67F 3A13 0394 B893 A931 +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ wrong polarity of neutron flow To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message