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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.misc:13383 comp.os.386bsd.misc:2373 comp.unix.unixware:4154 comp.unix.solaris:15056 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!uknet!lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk!doc.ic.ac.uk!castle.york.ac.uk!ejs1 From: ejs1@unix.york.ac.uk (Edmund J. Sutcliffe) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.unixware,comp.unix.solaris Subject: Re: A good NFS server ? Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.unixware,comp.unix.solaris Date: 26 Apr 1994 07:29:49 GMT Organization: University of York, Computing Service, UK Lines: 31 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <2piftd$a5@castle.york.ac.uk> References: <2pfj7f$d5l@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: tower.york.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] dan@dna.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu wrote: : I have been thinking about giving Linux a try, but I have heard that : it isn't a very good NFS server. What is the current state of the Linux NFS : server ? : Would FreeBSD, NetBSD, Unixware or Solaris X86 be better choices as : an NFS server ? I would be doing a lot of multi-Mbyte reads and writes to it. : How do these UNIX variants compare as far as NFS implementation is concerned ? : Please email responses. Thanks. : Cheers, : Dan Ts'o 713-798-3331 : Div. Neuroscience FAX: 713-798-3897 : Baylor College of Medicine : 1 Baylor Plaza S603 dan@dna.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu : Houston, TX 77030 tso@cephalo.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu I have use both FreeBSD and Solaris x86 and Linux to server PCs which remote boot and use PC-NFS. Linux preformed better than FreeBSD, which crashed some times. Solaris x86 required some patches then performed reliably and well if sometime a little slowly for no reason at all. In the end the solution we bought an AUSPEX NS/6000, but because our NFS traffic got so big, but it is definately not a cheap solution Hope this is useful Edmund -- =============================================================================== Edmund J. Sutcliffe Phone +44 (0)904 433809 Computing Service, Fax +44 (0)904 433740 University of York, Heslington, Internet Mail: edmund@york.ac.uk York, YO1 5DD U.K.