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Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 13:16:04 +0100
From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>
To: dima <_pppp@mail.ru>
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Subject: Re: is NFS production-ready ?
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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.

Regards,

Brian.