Plain NFS should work fine. We (sun) have a (few) large /var/mail shared out via nfs which works fine. We also live on NFS for just about everything, (installs, home dirs, shared place for applications, you name it)
If you've a large number of connections to the nfs server up the nfs threads from its default of 16 via the /etc/default/nfs file. Regards, Sean. . Andrew Watkins stated: < My manager asked me if I could a mirror copy of our /var/mail on another system, just in case the system went down. He suggested that Windows has DFS (Distributed File System) and I said I would look into it. < < Over the weekend I thought of CacheFS which comes will solaris which allows you to have a local copy of a network drive, so that it can improve the "NFS server performance and scalability by reducing server and network load.". My joy was short lived when I relaises that when the server goes down your local copy of that NFS is not accessable. < < I don't see why CacheFS can not work in this situation, so that if there is a local version of the file use it and not just hang....... < < Any thoughts or has any one got a good Solaris/OpenSolaris solution to my problem. < < Andrew < < < This message posted from opensolaris.org < _______________________________________________ < opensolaris-discuss mailing list < [email protected] _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
