Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 09:10:45 -0500 From: "Zane C.B." <zanecb@midwest-connections.com> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Cc: dima <_pppp@mail.ru> Subject: Re: is NFS production-ready ? Message-ID: <20060411091045.231f0e94@zerda> In-Reply-To: <E1FTJPK-000MoC-00._pppp-mail-ru@f16.mail.ru> References: <20060411121604.GA77666@uk.tiscali.com> <E1FTJPK-000MoC-00._pppp-mail-ru@f16.mail.ru>
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On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 17:59:50 +0400 dima <_pppp@mail.ru> wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 11:26:40PM +0400, dima wrote: > > > 3. Is at least implementation of NFS client (either kernel-side or > > > user-space) stable enough for production use? Client OS > > > replacement is impossible (hardly suitable, really) in my project. > > > > I built a big mail/web cluster a few years ago using FreeBSD 4.x > > (4.6.2 I think), where all the front-ends used NFS to access data > > on a shared fileserver platform (NetApp). It worked without a > > hitch, and still does. > > What is the reaction on network/NAS failure? > I mean, I'm about to provide transparent storage service in the case > of failures of different types. Not sure about currently, but it use to have a problem with if there was a failure, it would go into a wait state forever. I've not run into this in a very long time and this was suppose to have been fixed a month or two ago.
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