From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 15 18:02:11 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 748F5106566B for ; Sat, 15 Jan 2011 18:02:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frlinux@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ww0-f50.google.com (mail-ww0-f50.google.com [74.125.82.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0312E8FC1E for ; Sat, 15 Jan 2011 18:02:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwf26 with SMTP id 26so4006859wwf.31 for ; Sat, 15 Jan 2011 10:02:00 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=w74oCQjt3kyR69ypQLgyCNvoV4daykS+QU8eDvP6yL4=; b=kaiweB4MJMIc1RIwaCc16bTidPx+cBWDwQx99V19nD+Myzz/KzRQK+bdMwSC3TK5qc GWVSmZ0O9U9ogTAEKvJdPISqtC9PYGeIrzxPP4LaXbu2UdsoPYlR9mYPJ/5N89NV4cvo sZfRMcgTUqWRkLSWCzF2d6i9iRw6EdnG8Bdtc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=RUe6+uI5dvyq+EBLUXFafZ74Iw5guXncJpWPLaheE3oIjEdxHcx4nukoFM34lqHexC OSM3C81+sTJ2kbYBxm/pLVpPRhXxR3YvwtG8242bochZ0z86rqBmaLwssyXKVD04ffQq +j5SpZ4JES2y7p4P0wfW1Krz0MGkKVBbbQULs= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.227.138.21 with SMTP id y21mr2104823wbt.212.1295114483970; Sat, 15 Jan 2011 10:01:23 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.227.203.133 with HTTP; Sat, 15 Jan 2011 10:01:23 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <591451.38501.qm@web120705.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> References: <20110115003535.75A7010656BF@hub.freebsd.org> <591451.38501.qm@web120705.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 18:01:23 +0000 Message-ID: From: FRLinux To: James Phillips Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Alessandro Baggi Subject: Re: FreeBSD Decision X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 18:02:11 -0000 On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 1:56 AM, James Phillips wro= te: > One thing to keep in mind is that BSD speaks a different POSIX "dialect" = than most Linux distros (though that is likely true between Linux distros a= s well). This means things like NFS/NIS won't work without tweaking. One th= ing I also ran into is that md5sum (Debian) ~=3D md5 (BSD). I suppose you a= re supposed to use SHA2 these days anyway :P Hello, I'd be curious to hear about any particular tweaking you need applying on NFS FreeBSD servers. I have used them for the past 8 years starting with 4.x at the time and now with a mix of 6.x 7x and 8.x and had not to tweak anything. I have found an interesting problem that i cannot explain though. If the server is installed at 64 bits, and you serve a mix of 32 and 64 bits clients, it crashes the server within a few days (typical throupout on one of these servers would be serving about 50G a day ,nothing really high). As soon as you switch to only 32 bits Linux clients, no more crash. Also Centos 64 bits linux clients (2.6.18+redhat patches) do not crash the server. Cheers, Steph