On Jun 9, 2010, at 8:22 PM, David Severance wrote: >> What are the chances of this working ? There would be no sharing of >> files with any other NFS clients, just the one disk mount. > > I had this conversation with Mark some years back, let me summarize, > there's no chance it will work reliably.
Supplementing what my colleague across the hall has said... If memory serves, Mark went into length on the root issues, most of which were related to bizarreness of the Solaris kernel. When we explained that we had Linux clients with NetApp servers, he felt that the Solaris-specific reasons wouldn't apply, but the remaining technical issues of NFS still resulted in insufficient file locking. We ran MBOX/Linux/NFS/NetApp for years, but a class of weirdness (which we never fully quantified) simply vanished with the move to mix/Linux/iSCSI/NetApp. I know NFS is tempting. But you really need to be on a DAS/SAN storage, not NAS. -- Andrew Laurence [email protected] _______________________________________________ Imap-uw mailing list [email protected] http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/imap-uw
