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From: byron@ocf.nms.unt.edu (Byron Goodman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.unixware,comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Re: A good NFS server ?
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Date: 25 Apr 1994 10:33:08 GMT
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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 personally seem to think that FreeBSD is faster that most other UNIX's
availble for 80x86 processors. You probably won't believe me, but I'm
using an 8bit 3com 3c503 running FreeBSD 1.1-BETA on a 486SX and it out
performs a SCO System running SCO Unix 4.2.4 on a NE2000 ethernet card
that runs on a 486DX50.
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