Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 16:47:51 +0930 From: "Thyer, Matthew" <Matthew.Thyer@dsto.defence.gov.au> To: "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@looksharp.net> Cc: Stephen McKay <mckay@thehub.com.au>, chat@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NIS client performance seems very poor under network load Message-ID: <3BB4241F.54D3C039@dsto.defence.gov.au> References: <20010928005036.W24028-100000@turtle.looksharp.net>
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"Brandon D. Valentine" wrote: > > On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Thyer, Matthew wrote: > >Combine that with the fact that FreeBSD has no automounter that is > >compatible with the commercial UNIX systems and you'll see that > >FreeBSD is missing out in some key markets (being a client in a > >larger UNIX network). > > I have echoed these sentiments many times on this same mailing list. I > am faced with the same problem. I admin a large, heterogenous > NIS/NFS/autofs domain and integrating just one FreeBSD box into is so > hacking it's embarassing. > > >[I dont want to hear the arguments of "Use AMD, it's better" > >because there are many situations where the client cannot control > >what NIS maps the server will provide]. > > You post messages like this on FreeBSD mailing lists and from personal > experience I can guarantee you'll get lots of "help" converting to AMD. I'm not asking for help. I have done this myself. In a small part of this organisation I have created a non-standard NIS+ map which I call "amd_home". This NIS+ map is populated daily by a hack of a cron job that awks auto_home into amd_home. This is not hard to do but it is hackish. My point is that it looks really bad to management to even have to hack up such a work around. Also this workaround is not very good in that new auto_home map entries wont appear in amd_home until the next day. In answer to those who say "convert the whole organisation to AMD", I say "you're missing the point". The reality is that many large organisations have a team of admins who already know commercial UNIX and will say "Use Linux instead for your x86 requirements". > AFAIK nobody has written an autofsd for BSD, but the amd maintainers > (now known as am-utils and in src/contrib) have stuff on their website > about adding autofs support to amd, but it doesn't appear to be very far > along. Thanks for the information. -- Matthew Thyer Phone: +61 8 8259 7249 Science Corporate Information Systems Fax: +61 8 8259 5537 Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Edinburgh PO Box 1500 Edinburgh South Australia 5111 IMPORTANT: This email remains the property of the Australian Defence Organisation and is subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 of the CRIMES ACT 1914. If you have received this email in error, you are requested to contact the sender and delete the email. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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