[rescue] Q: OpenVMS NFS performance questions

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 06:44:28PM -0600, Eric Dittman wrote:
> > > 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.

That is an important point, and that is why my personal consideration is
limited to BSD or Solaris.

However, the question was meant more in the general sense, assuming we
were picking the machine to support the idea NFS serving OS/daemon.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd