Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 16:32:35 -0500 From: Christian Kuhtz <ck@ns1.adsu.bellsouth.com> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Josh Tiefenbach <josh@ican.net> Cc: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NOW/MOSIX/Beowulf Message-ID: <19981230163235.C828@ns1.adsu.bellsouth.com> In-Reply-To: <199812302055.MAA05735@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Wed, Dec 30, 1998 at 12:55:02PM -0800 References: <19981230151056.00820@ican.net> <199812302055.MAA05735@dingo.cdrom.com>
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> > > Have you actually evaulated it, or are you just going on word-of-mouth?
> >
> > We've actually evaluated it, are actually using it, and was one of the ones
> > who described it as being a `pig' to Gary at LISA.
Slightly off-topic, but if you are looking for a fast and very solid LDAP
server, you may want to take a very serious look at NetWare5 (particularly with
SKADS). I can't publish performance numbers because of NDAs, other than to say
that it is *significantly* faster (and more robust) than anything else out
there. This applies to reads as well as inserts.
Before you break out into a laughter, being a UNIX geek, I have to admit that
this piece of code rocks. They do things like XFree86 on NetWare5 and it is
no longer an alien entity in the network. Can you imagine launching an xterm
off a NetWare server to admin it? :)
It has one thing that we're particularly keen on is multimaster directory
services; a must for any large scale deployment (the whole notion of having
to commit all writes in one places is ridiculous). Without that, LDAP is
useless IMHO. (mind you, LDAP itself doesn't do multimaster, but by virtue of
having NDS underneath, you get LDAP multimaster for free).
The evaluation here was for very large scale deployment purposes. If I had to
deploy today, NetWare5 would be my choice, with a major gap between it and the
next one done. And I am not a NetWare believer by any means. But this is
serious code.
I agree that pretty much all other directory services suck rocks.
Disclaimer: I don't speak for BellSouth Corporation, and the views expressed
here are soly my own.
Cheers,
Chris
--
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The belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.
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