Re: Any suggest on NFS server in product environment?

[Andrew Reid <reidac@bellatlantic.net>]

On Wednesday 08 October 2008 10:01, Ding Honghui wrote:
> hi list,
>
> Any suggest on NFS server in product environment?
> nfs-user-server or nfs-kernel-server?
> We need stable nfs server.

  I use nfs-kernel-server, I use it to run an 8 TB primary server and
a 4-ish TB secondary server.  It's used to export the filesystems for
diskless nodes for our cluster, and for user home directories for
about forty users, of whom about ten are fairly heavy users.  
  
  When we run into performance problems, we are usually disk-bound,
and sometimes network-bound, when (for instance) someone decides to do
multiple sequential "grep" operations on a multi-gigabyte file 
over NFS.

  Having said that, I've never actually used nfs-user-server, 
because nfs-kernel-server has always worked fine.

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Andrew Reid / reidac@bellatlantic.net