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. -- -- Karl Denninger (k...@denninger.net) Web: fathers.denninger.net I ain't even *authorized* to speak for anyone other than myself, so give up now on trying to associate my words with any particular organization. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
