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From: csgr@cs.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet)
Subject: Re: A good NFS server ?
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Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
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Date: Wed, 27 Apr 1994 07:50:23 GMT
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In <2piftd$a5@castle.york.ac.uk> ejs1@unix.york.ac.uk (Edmund J. Sutcliffe) writes:
> 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
I've been running a FreeBSD system as a NFS server for a while (serving
a few FreeBSD and Linux systems). We also have Suns here acting as NFS
servers. I've found that generally a 486DX33 with an SMC Elite NIC and
Adaptec SCSI performs about as well as a Sun IPC for an NFS server. If
you are wanting a fast NFS service, somerthing like a SS10/512 obviously
goes a lot faster by comparison.
I haven't had any problems with NFS on FreeBSD (I am running -current).
Geoff.
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