On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 07:56:16PM +0200, Henning Brauer wrote:
> * Joachim Schipper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-04-20 14:49]:
> > On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 12:36:29PM +0200, Henning Brauer wrote:
> > > * Joachim Schipper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-04-20 00:36]:
> > > > On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 10:51:56PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> > > > > > I don't think NFS/AFS is that good an idea; you'll need very beefy
> > > > > > fileservers and a fast network.
> > > > >
> > > > > NFS may actually be useful; if you really need the files in one
> > > > > directory space for management/updates that's a way to do it (i.e.
> > > > > mount all the various storage servers by NFS on a management
> > > > > station/ftp server/whatever).
> > > >
> > > > Something like that might be a very good idea, yes. Just don't try to
> > > > serve everything directly off NFS.
> > >
> > > there is nothing wrong with serving directly from NFS.
> >
> > Really? You have a lot more experience in this area, so I will defer to
> > you if you are sure, but it seems to me that in the sort of system I
> > explicitly assumed (something like a web farm), serving everything off
> > NFS would involve either very expensive hardware or be rather slow.
>
> no. cache works. reads are no problem whatsoever in this kind of setup
> (well. I am sure you can make that a problem with many frontend servers
> and lots to read. obviously. but for any sane number of frontends,
> should not)
Yeah, you are right. Now what was I thinking, anyway?
Anyway, thanks!
Joachim
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