I am also using distro of kernel 2.4.x (RedHat 7.1) . Would you
please tell me your mount parameter?
I think your testing senario should meet with the standard mail
server environment. The flawless result may mean the flawless of NFS
using reiserFS!!
Thanks
--
HF Kwan
--- Mike Cathey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Henning,
> What about the latest 2.4.x series kernel?
> I've started testing an nfs server with rieserfs.
>
> It appears not to have problems. I wrote a perl script to create
> 10,000-20,000 small files and it handled it flawlessly.
>
> 2.4.7 (reiserfs-quota patch)
> 90Gb RAID5 array (mylex controller driver compiled in) (reiserfs)
> latest nfs-utils (sorry, don't have version #)
> PIII-800
> 512MB RAM
> Alteon GigE SX nic -> Cisco 3508G
>
> All of the stories that I've heard said that the NFSv2 server had
> the
> problems. I've not heard bad reviews about the NFSv3 server.
> Comments?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike
>
> On Fri, 10 Aug 2001, Henning Brauer wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 10:14:06AM +0800, HF Kwan wrote:
> > > Then, what's the problem of NFS on Linux? Do both the NFS
> server and
> > > NFS client have problem? Or just either server or client?
> >
> > Both. It's unreliable, NFSv3 doesn't work at all.
>
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