Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 04:14:13 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=E9rome_OUFELLA?= <la.firme@esil.univ-mrs.fr> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Choices for big NFS server? Message-ID: <20000310041413.M14279@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <38C8D2A5.5B2A33D4@esil.univ-mrs.fr>; from la.firme@esil.univ-mrs.fr on Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 10:47:01AM %2B0000 References: <38C8D2A5.5B2A33D4@esil.univ-mrs.fr>
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* Jérome OUFELLA <la.firme@esil.univ-mrs.fr> [000310 03:19] wrote: > Hi, > We need to use FreeBSD as a quite big (~150GB) NFS server serving > around 200 clients. > The hardware is ready-to-go, and the installation time has come. > > Is it worth it to use FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT (as I heard, becoming -RELEASE > on next monday?), or is the NFS performance gain for such a server > minimal compared to 3.4-STABLE ? In which case I'd rather use that > (3.4-)stable branch on my server. > > The server is quite fast, using SMP, and has a bunch of FastEthernet > adapters. I think 4.0 would be the best bet. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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