On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, G. Allen Morris III wrote:
>
> If you aren't planning to use locking; you can use knfsd or unfsd.
> If you do want to use locking then knfsd is your only choice.
>
> 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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