Re: NFS Under OS X (was Re: pre-asun2.1.4-39)

[Marcus Radich]

At 9:48 pm -0700 23/7/2000, Harry Zink/Netatalk List wrote:
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>a) The cost of the NT software is only roughly $150 if you shop well. This
>is not significant in the scope of things.

True enough, but you need *major firepower* to run NT at a decent 
speed. Talk about a GHz PC with 256MB of RAM just to boot!! 
<exaggerated, but not far wrong>. You are forgetting this cost.

>
>b) If you are a halfway decent administrator, you snould NOT use your server
>for much of anything else than serving files.
>

I guess this is one approach.
I can whack in a second enet card and use the same Linux install for 
Proxy, or Mail, or even a dev server for the Mac designers. I don't 
see ANY speed issues at all. Linux sits at 2-20% CPU serving several 
designers, and delivers up to 10MB/sec....
The NT approach? Get another server for Proxy, another for Web Dev, 
another for Exchange Server...boy, THIS adds up! I'd say you are up 
for a bit more than the quoted $150...

mrad01

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                Marcus Radich 1999

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