[rescue] NFS Server?

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Sat Feb 23 21:31:11 CST 2002


On February 23, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 09:00:41PM -0600, Derrick D. Daugherty wrote:
> > It's rumored that around Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 09:11:57PM -0500
> > Eric Webb <ttlchaos at randomc.com> wrote:
> > > In your opinions, who makes a better (read: manageable, reliable, 
> > > better-performing) NFS server of the major *NIXes?  I'm considering AIX, 
> > > Solaris, Linux, BSD as options...
> > 
> > if it's an nfs only pc box i'd say fbsd for the net speed...but how large
> > and what sorta io is this going to be?  what sort of clients?
> > 
> > if you have a budget i'd recommend a netapps above all others.  It's
> > tops in respect to seepd, management and reliability.   fbsd has a clean
> > fast side to it, sun has a higher availabitly side to it.. netapps
> > combines both.
> 
> Why not Auspex?

  Auspex got infiltrated by suits.  Their current machines are
overglorified PeeCees running NT.

     -Dave

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Dave McGuire
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