From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 30 13:33:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA03654 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 13:33:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.adsu.bellsouth.com (ns1.adsu.bellsouth.com [205.152.173.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA03649 for ; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 13:33:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ck@ns1.adsu.bellsouth.com) Received: (from ck@localhost) by ns1.adsu.bellsouth.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id QAA01085; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 16:32:35 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <19981230163235.C828@ns1.adsu.bellsouth.com> Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 16:32:35 -0500 From: Christian Kuhtz To: Mike Smith , Josh Tiefenbach Cc: The Hermit Hacker , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NOW/MOSIX/Beowulf References: <19981230151056.00820@ican.net> <199812302055.MAA05735@dingo.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <199812302055.MAA05735@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Wed, Dec 30, 1998 at 12:55:02PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > 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 -- Frisbeetarianism, n.: The belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message