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Re: NFS recommendation
On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Udi Finkelstein wrote:
> Hi,
>
[snip]
> with RedHat, so it boils down to RH5.2, RH6.0, or RH6.0 with the latest 2.2.x
> kernel. I would use 5.2 if it's more mature unless it's NFS performance is
> **substantially** lower than 6.0's performance. Also notice we *don't* use an
> SMP machine, so all the 2.2.x improvements in SMP are not relevant.
>
[snip]
> The purpose of this server is to serve as a large **temporary file** storage
> location. This usually involves object files, executables, and simulation data
> files. All data is non essential, and can be easily recreated, even if I
> completely reformat the system. The only reason we added it was the
> prohibitively high price of adding fiber channel disks to our main NetApp F720
> NFS server. We don't want it to be full with gigabytes of temp files.
>
> Our clients are all UltraSparc machines, running Solaris 2.5.1 or 2.6 .
>
> Please notice that I'm *NOT* a sysadmin. My main job is hardware design, and
> I'm not supposed to spend too much time on this (my bosses wants me to spend
> my time on hardware design, not on system administration). I need
> recommendations for a configuration that installs simply, and that works
> *reasonably* well as far as speed and reliability. even though it's a temp
> file server, file corruptions on heavy load during work are not really
> welcomed...
>
> (My experience with RedHat 5.2 was wonderfull. Within 30 minutes of opening up
> the brand new Compaq box we got, I booted a Cheapbytes RH5.2 CD, zapped the
> Win95 system, and had it running a private FTP server. Out of these 30
> minutes, only 10 minutes was spent at the keyboard answering questions...)
>
> thanks,
> Udi
>
>
Be advised that I have had many problems with NFS compatibility
between a RedHat 5.2 server and solaris 2.6 and 2.7 clients. Typical
problems are that when I try to run executables on the Linux server I get
a "text file busy" message. Also, after unpacking 15-20Mb compressed files
over NFS there is often a lot of file corruption, sometimes on other files
in the mounted partition. Could be that there's some silly configuration
error I'm making but you'd better test your installation with large file
transfers before you tell your user community that its ok.
I would be interested in hearing others' experience using a Linux NFS
server with Solaris clients in a heavily loaded environment.
TIA,
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