From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 28 8:29:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E93AA37BECB for ; Fri, 28 Apr 2000 08:29:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsidd@theory2.physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: (qmail 1831 invoked from network); 28 Apr 2000 15:02:45 -0000 Received: from theory2.physics.iisc.ernet.in (144.16.71.21) by theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in with SMTP; 28 Apr 2000 15:02:45 -0000 Received: (qmail 891 invoked by uid 211); 28 Apr 2000 15:02:45 -0000 Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 20:32:44 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Vinum over NFS? Message-ID: <20000428203244.A886@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i X-Operating-System: Linux 2.2.5-15 i486 X-Question: Do you enjoy reading pointless headers? Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, We need to set up an NFS fileserver which will serve around 10-20 machines. The hardware would preferably be Intel, for cost reasons, though fairly high-end (say a Pentium III 550+ MHz, 256 MB RAM, SCSI disks). The expected exported volume would be perhaps 50-60 GB. Is it a good idea to export a vinum volume over NFS? How reliable is FreeBSD's NFS for this kind of situation -- I've heard that both FreeBSD and Linux have some way to go to catch up with commercial unixen in NFS? Any other suggestions? Thanks, Rahul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message