You should also get better performance from knfsd. You should
check http://csua.berkeley.edu/~gam3/knfsd/ for the latest patches.
What I would do is use autofs and knfsd for /home. If you have
the diskspace using rsynce should be more robust than nfs for
/opt and /usr.
Allen
>>>jens@pinguin.conetix.de said:
> Hi,
>
> I will be setting up an NFS server shortly. It will be tied up to an 100MBit
> network via 3COM hardware and serve /usr, /opt and /home to about 20 (also
> Linux, also not installed yet) clients. The distribution I am planning on is
> Debian 2.1 (mainly because I know it and I know some tools like rsync and
> rupdate, ruptime, etc which can help in such an installation).
>
> Now. Which NFS implementation should I use? knfsd, the usual NFS, ...? The
> server will do nothing much else, there is another Linux box serving ISDN
> traffic, mail, proxy and all the other network stuff. It will probably be
> something about a P133 with 32MB of RAM and SCSI hardware, is that enough?
>
> Or is keeping /usr, /opt locally and using rsync/rupdate the better idea? Is
> anyone working in such a constellation?
>
> If this is not for the list, please reply by eMail. Thanks!
>
> --
> _ciao, Jens_______________________________ http://www.pinguin.conetix.de
> cat /dev/boiler/water | tea | sieve > /cup
> mount -t hdev /dev/human/mouth01 /mouth ; cat /cup >/mouth/gulp
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