From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 20 15:18:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68DE837B404 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 2002 15:18:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-165-226-88.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.165.226.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9482C43E8A for ; Sun, 20 Oct 2002 15:18:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 13BE566E5B; Sun, 20 Oct 2002 15:18:07 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 15:18:06 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: vr Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD as nfs server for multiple linux clients Message-ID: <20021020221806.GA30961@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20021020163127.A64179@thenoc.worldbank.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="7JfCtLOvnd9MIVvH" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021020163127.A64179@thenoc.worldbank.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --7JfCtLOvnd9MIVvH Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 04:31:27PM -0400, vr wrote: >=20 > I need to set up a streaming video system in my network > and order to make efficient use of resourses I want to > have a FreeBSD NFS server with a huge storage for the > video content, and then have multiple Real server linux=20 > machines mounting the same content off the BSD via nfs. > I chose linux as realservers because there is better support > for that particular application. >=20 > Now the question is, are there any known NFS issues between > FreeBSD and Linux that I should know about where BSD is=20 > the server and linux is the client? The Linux NFS implementation is kind of flaky..you'll need to limit the performance of your FreeBSD server in order to have stable clients (e.g. using NFSv2 instead of NFSv3). Kris --7JfCtLOvnd9MIVvH Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9syueWry0BWjoQKURAtjaAJ9LXQWAEXtCqerkZkOUdXsTk2jCQwCg4KkT 3Za4Icqf0u1jkzYWGz5DRCw= =cRCC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --7JfCtLOvnd9MIVvH-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message