Adam Bower abower@zeus.com writes:
Aah, you have mentioned the unmentionable, I wouldn't use linux as a NFS server ever! I would recommend that you use Solaris for NFS as Sun invented NFS (at work we say definitivly broken) it is the reference platform for other *nix. Linux is a great NFS client though...
Oddly enough, the kernel nfs in Linux 2.2 has been better for me than the Solaris implementation in 2.5.1 and 2.6. Solaris 7 and 8 are better than 2.2, so I'm hoping that the 2.4 kernels will level things up again.
The non-kernel nfs server isn't worth using, though, and in most cases you should use rsize=8192,wsize=8192.
Now I've rebuilt this machine, I'm off to play with ext3 (mangled /home, here we come!). Any last words of advice?
MJ Ray wrote:
Adam Bower abower@zeus.com writes:
Aah, you have mentioned the unmentionable, I wouldn't use linux as a NFS server ever! I would recommend that you use Solaris for NFS as Sun invented NFS (at work we say definitivly broken) it is the reference platform for other *nix. Linux is a great NFS client though...
Oddly enough, the kernel nfs in Linux 2.2 has been better for me than the Solaris implementation in 2.5.1 and 2.6. Solaris 7 and 8 are better than 2.2, so I'm hoping that the 2.4 kernels will level things up again.
Like I said definitivly broken is a good thing :-) (but I am biased having to support more than 16 different *n*x variants) I havn't ever touched 2.5 slowaris and 2.6 lurks somewhere in the machine room for support only I think!
The non-kernel nfs server isn't worth using, though, and in most cases you should use rsize=8192,wsize=8192.
Now I've rebuilt this machine, I'm off to play with ext3 (mangled /home, here we come!). Any last words of advice?
Try 2.4 and reiserfs and let me know the results ;-) before I commit to the changeover.
anyway good to see you are back up and online Mark.
PS where can I find Jenny's poster for Linux Day??