Yann Golanski wrote:
> Quoth Kjetil Torgrim Homme on Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 13:44:57 +0200
>
>>I'd add: if NFS is involved in your solution, use Solaris. I'm afraid
>>Linux' NFS has never been very stable. "it mostly works", whereas
>>Solaris is rock stable. (caveat: I don't have any experience with Linux
>>2.6.)
>
>
> I don't agree here. We used Linux + NetApp and NFS for years and it
> was rock solid with 3 million customers.
>
> I used Exim on Solaris, Linux and FreeBSD and I have not seen any major
> differences in performances. It's all down to Exim's bottle neck: its
> disk IO.
>
Speed isn't the only issue. With an FC1 client I see duplicated entries in
the ls output for some directories from an NFS server. From packet capture
and disection I know that the server isn't sending them, NFS on the FC1
client is generating them.
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