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> Last time I used NFS with Linux, it wasn't all that crash hot.
> Although, much...
...
> I am wondering what (currently) people consider a production quality
> platform to run an NFS server on? I am thinking maybe a BSD although
> the kernel NFS code in Linux is much more stable now, I've heard.
> The idea is to put together a RAID boxen which will serve web pages and
> mail spool via NFS. (Don't worry, I'm only mounting the mail spool
> once. ;-) It's not a large enterprise system. )
While Linux does not provide very hot NFS support and generally has problems
with things like locking (major problems), and quotas, don't rule it out.
Personally I have a system now which is very similar to the system in which
you sound like you want to build.
Until recently, it was a Linux server with an external RAID serving both
mailspool and web pages to four real servers. (and a couple of other
servers -- application, news, etc.) Right now (for various reasons most
having to do with how nightly backups are handled) I have two Linux servers
both with external RAIDs. One handles mailspool, the other handles web
pages. Both are configured so that if and when one machine Linux server dies
completely the other can pick up the other RAID and serve both RAIDs again.
There will be some manual interaction, of course, but I have NOCs 24/7 and
hopefully such a problem would occur when a tech was available to handle the
switch.
Such a system seems to work fine for me. (It's worked for a long time0 It's
easy for me to administrate because everything's Linux. I run into problems
here or there when a program has trouble locking and requires a local share,
but I get around those problems... and overall it's not that bad.
All the best --
Ted
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