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Re: Off Topic (Again) NFS -- which platform?

To: Benjamin Lee <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Off Topic (Again) NFS -- which platform?
Cc: lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
From: Horms <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 09:46:19 -0700
On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 12:39:37AM +1100, Benjamin Lee wrote:
> Last time I used NFS with Linux, it wasn't all that crash hot. Although,
> much of the blame can be put upon the cheap network cards that couldn't
> handle the traffic.
> 
> 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. )

You should probably look at the work that HJ Lu and David Higgin have
been doing on NFS.

http://nfs.sourceforge.net/



-- 
Horms


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