From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 12 17:16:54 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA16803 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 17:16:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ilms.nla.gov.au (ilms.nla.gov.au [192.102.239.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA16793 for ; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 17:16:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gadget.nla.gov.au (cmakin@gadget.nla.gov.au [192.102.239.85]) by ilms.nla.gov.au (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA111508; Thu, 13 Jun 1996 10:13:11 +1000 Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 10:16:26 +1000 (EST) From: Carl Makin To: Charles Henrich cc: dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Fast SCSI controller In-Reply-To: <199606122110.RAA00457@crh.cl.msu.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 12 Jun 1996, Charles Henrich wrote: > In lists.freebsd.questions you write: > >On Tue, 11 Jun 1996, Brian J. McGovern wrote: > >>I'm looking at building a file server for a group of Sun workstations at > >>work. I expect to have several SCSI drives on the machine, and thought it'd > One thing no one has mentioned is that NFS on FreeBSD is pretty horrid. On > 2.1R I get lockups on the client quite a bit, in the server mode I've seen it I run NFS quite a lot from a FreeBSD 2.1R box with NO problems. In fact my user home directories, until last week, were all NFS mounted (from an AIX box) with no lockups or errors. I also backup my box via NFS to a StorageTek Silo nightly. If you're having NFS I'd be having a *much* closer look at your hardware and software setup. Carl. -- Carl Makin (VK1KCM) C.Makin@nla.gov.au 'Work +61 6 262 1576' "Speaking for myself only!" 'The entire concept of daylight savings time is like trying to make yourself taller by cutting off your head and standing on it.' - Usenet Oracle