[rescue] Q: OpenVMS NFS performance questions

[Eric Dittman]

> > There are quite a few places serving files over NFS from VMS
> > systems, but OpenVMS really isn't the best OS to use for NFS.
> > I'm a big fan of OpenVMS, but I'd still recommend using *BSD
> > as a NFS server.
> 
> So, what do people think is the best OS for NFS serving?  A few years, I
> got the impression that studios tended to think that Solaris was the
> best (mainly since apparently it didn't crash as much, or cause the
> clients to crash as much).  I'm quite certain from my own experience
> that Linux and NT aren't the best.  One of these days I want to try and
> rigorously compare NetBSD and Solaris 8 against each other on an
> Ultra1.  It is pretty high on my list of things to do once I graduate
> since replacing an old P75 running linux as a file server is a high
> priority. 

I recommended *BSD since it will run on the Alpha he has and
won't cost anything.
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Eric Dittman
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