On 01-Mar-99 Tim Buller wrote: > We are investigating the possibility of replacing a departmental NFS > Server which is currently a Sun Sparc 20 running Solaris with some kind of > i386 hardware running Debian 2.1. This server would support about 500 > users, 100 of which may be active in any one week. It would have ~50 GB of > RAID5 storage. It would also run Samba and Netatalk to serve user files to > Windoze and Mac boxes. Some questions/issues are: >
Not to be stupid, but why not switch the Sun to Linux? > > 5) What about coda? Is it stable enough to implement in a production > system at the departmental level? > No, it is not. Maybe 6 months to a year. Coda currently also depends on you knowing the size of data the coda fs will hold. Upgrading this is not trivial. So installing another 10gb 3 months from now is not easy. Copying large files and files larger than the allocated space cause problems.
