Re: Linux Raid5 and NFS, how stable an reliable?

1999-12-06 Thread Luca Berra
On Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 12:56:29PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've had very little trouble with the old user-space NFS code, but > recently I setup a Red Hat 6.1 system using knfsd and have been having > some trouble in a setup where the 6.1 box is the server and several older > (2.0.x kern

RE: Linux Raid5 and NFS, how stable an reliable?

1999-12-06 Thread Roeland M.J. Meyer
A few notes: 1) We have been using Linux NFS here for years. Once you have it running it appears to be rock-solid. We've even NFS mounted a filesystem, from another server, and then shared it out over Samba, to client workstations. This was a production configuration and it lasted for years, until

Re: Linux Raid5 and NFS, how stable an reliable?

1999-12-06 Thread jlewis
On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Dong Hu wrote: > We need about 200G hard disk space for software a development > environment. I am considering of using linux-raid5 configuration. > We will use nfs to share the disk on 100 Ethernet Lan. > > My concern is, how stable an reliable is linux NFS and raid5? > Any

Re: Linux Raid5 and NFS, how stable an reliable?

1999-12-06 Thread David Holl
Just to verify - you would like to create a Raid5 on 1 machine and share it via NFS, or would you like to create a Raid5 out of other machines' drives shared via NFS? (the first is very reliable, but the latter is a little far fetched, though may be technically possible) My impressions of Raid a