On Thu, Jun 24, 1999 at 11:14:24AM -0700, Doug wrote:
> >
> > That's the world I lived in (except that I used FreeBSD for the NFS
> > servers as well!) and done properly it works EXTREMELY well.
>
> I'm not going to have that luxury, and I really believe that
> NetApp and it's cousings are going to be THE point of access in the next
> year or so. They work too well to pass up, and now that they are OEM'ing
> the disk shelves they will be too cheap to justify rolling your own for
> all but the most diehard platform advocates.
The point I was making, Doug, is that FreeBSD as an NFS client works quite
well in my experience, PROVIDED that you are (1) running a "good" code
base, and (2) have things set up correctly.
I don't argue with the Netapp people; they have a good product that does a
good job. The major problme has been the disk cost for a long time; if
they're fixing that, then the overall picture will change dramatically and
in their favor, which is a good thing.
However, that doesn't change the fact that FreeBSD makes quite a good NFS
client IF you do things "right". Yes, there are issues. No, they're not
impossible to solve.
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