From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 6 11:30:45 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 233E116A400 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2007 11:30:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from arne_woerner@yahoo.com) Received: from web30312.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web30312.mail.mud.yahoo.com [209.191.69.74]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C85D813C481 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2007 11:30:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from arne_woerner@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 48379 invoked by uid 60001); 6 Feb 2007 11:30:44 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=Zu/MpGfJeIlTlxIgdpcDBH6isUcSUokOlcMqPZcP3TtouQ9WWRwrR2tk0AHVvFKzva0uknX4YYy3Hg6al7EmRYOijm6vtzv42i4TwisCz+SgCIhYqiBiLxvqzD1uQ/whBq/lp/kTDn8mS5yAHvlWccFKDHXjGn9U2wwtN2gTQ1k=; X-YMail-OSG: 2IEek0wVM1l.SSdUUgucDF3u3HAVBmoYbkaRW8Gi.U4Icn6g5azU7CXGVtpy_ID3xD2cZQI750vRHemW82Ibx.oD7LbU.OFPPPulS2Lr95G4lfKDd4v9vHb3Z5Lj7bDFCnvN.yot9LTaBIo- Received: from [213.54.172.133] by web30312.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 06 Feb 2007 03:30:44 PST Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 03:30:44 -0800 (PST) From: "R. B. Riddick" To: Frans Haarman , freebsd-geom@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <2DC959620A73E842969792F5B47FCA0102AE4AEA@dg-exch1.giessen.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <219218.46894.qm@web30312.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Cc: Subject: Re: ggate or nfs X-BeenThere: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GEOM-specific discussions and implementations List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 11:30:45 -0000 --- Frans Haarman wrote: > Hi, we are running a pretty intesive Backup solution which stores the > contents of the backup in 256KB files on NFS. > We are often loosing our NFS mounts, and suspect more troubles with NFS. > Ohoh > I was wondering: > a) Would you use ggate instead of NFS > Nope... :-) Because: If NFS fails, ggate might have the same problem... Somehow I would try to find out, why NFS fails... And finally: NFS allows multiple write access, while ggate can only allow one single write access... > b) How good this ggatec & ggated is running in production > The ggate code is newer than the NFS implementation... ggate's approach is much easier, but might react more funny on ur special situation. > c) What tests you would recommend > Setup a reference (test) system and try to use it as ur backup file server (BUT: Do not forget ur real (production) backup during the test)... :) -Arne ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss an email again! Yahoo! Toolbar alerts you the instant new Mail arrives. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/mail/