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Date:      Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:33:00 -0400
From:      darko <darko.listsniffer@gmail.com>
To:        "Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET" <ml@t-b-o-h.net>
Cc:        Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>, Derek Belrose <derekb@realgeeky.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [freebsd-questions] Re: Port Management on a larger scale
Message-ID:  <82f3feb90807231833k3efedd54l28b952763d0e21cf@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200807232206.m6NM6vOT085271@himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com>
References:  <20080723215917.GA64673@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <200807232206.m6NM6vOT085271@himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com>

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On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET <ml@t-b-o-h.net> wrote:

>        2) Taking down or a failure of the NFS server pulls EVERY
> other system with it.



..just thinking out loud here...but.. what if you had 2 identical NFS/rsync
servers and used them together in a standby/failover method.

i.e. when you have to bring down one NFS/rsync server, you direct all
clients to the other and vice versa.






>
>        3) Working with lockd/statd can be problematic at times.
>        4) NFS on FreeBSD varies (I'M TOLD) between versions as to
> effectiveness, issues, etc.
>        5) I've run into issues where some programs are just NOT
> happy running over NFS (hylafax for me for example. POTENTIALLY a locking
> issue, but running a locking tester shows everything fine, but it
> just for the life of it won't work over NFS for me atleast).
>
>        Since this is a "personal" system, I put up with it. When
> I get the time/energy I'm going to break all the systems apart.
>
>                Tuc/TBOH
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-- 
regards,
dg

"..but the more you use clever tricks, the less support you'll get ..." --
M.W.Lucas



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