From: Brian Tinsley Subject: Re: NFS as a Cluster File System. Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2003 15:11:12 -0600 Sender: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <3E1DE570.7070207@emageon.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Cc: nfs@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-ha@muc.de Return-path: Received: from [63.162.183.250] (helo=emgw2ksrv001.emgdom001.emageon.com) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 18WvGU-0004li-00 for ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 01:15:47 -0800 To: Lorn Kay Errors-To: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Lorn Kay wrote: > > Is NFS a viable CFS? (I'm cross posting this due to a discussion on > the the linux-ha list recently.) Since there is not a really good cluster filesystem for Linux that is not either "half baked" (IMHO - I'm probably going to get smacked over that statement!) or cost an arm and a leg, this is exactly the route we have taken. > The NFS server is a high-quality dedicated machine (Net App, EMC, > etc.) We've had great success with just using SMP Linux servers. We do have one EMC IP4700 in production, and it's a nice system, but I prefer the Linux based alternative. > Linux clients can use TCP instead of UDP. Although I haven't had problems with this in our lab, I believe the NFS authors still consider this experimental. -- -[========================]- -[ Brian Tinsley ]- -[ Chief Systems Engineer ]- -[ Emageon ]- -[========================]- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs