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From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr)
Subject: Re: A good NFS server ?
Message-ID: <hastyCqECty.K13@netcom.com>
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References: <Cq9Cp8.IEp@novell.co.uk> <2s084d$1qg@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> <michaelv.769902750@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu>
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Date: Thu, 26 May 1994 06:32:22 GMT
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In article <michaelv.769902750@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon) writes:
>In <2s084d$1qg@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> dan@dna.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu writes:
>
>> Well, I was the one who started this thread, and I did want the input
>>of the Unixware people. For me, the free-ness was not an issue. I just wanted
>>and still want to know what the best NFS server (and client) platform is for
>>Intel PC's.
>
I would just try out FreeBSD or NetBSD in that order and try to sort out
the hardware issues, like which
o ethernet is the best -- heard goot things about 3com's 3c509
o scsi controller -- PCI or EISA perhaps from buslogic
o scsi disk -- many vendors have high rpm like around 7000 rpms.
o platform -- P66 or P90 are cheap nowdays ( I own a P66 and
is very nice :) )
The premise here is that Freebsd and Netbsd are free and easy
to get and install it shouldn't take long to figure out if
they are useful in your environment.
If you are wondering if the commercial OSes are an order of
magnitute faster or even %50 faster I doubt it. At the physical
media we can pretty much drive an ethernet at full bandwith with
an SMC Western Digital 16bit ether card on a 486DX266.
Hope this helps,
Amancio
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