On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 08:41:39PM +0100, Edgar Fuß wrote: > After the recent problems[*] we've been having with our (4.0/amd64) file > server, I'll surely be facing the question why we're not using that other OS > everybody else does. > > So I need some data for that upcoming discussion. Who is using NetBSD to > operate a file server on a scale comparable to or larger than ours, i.e. ~200 > users, ~1TB storage? If so, which version on what kind of hardware?
This looks like the use I have at work. I'm using a dual-Xeon server (8 cores) with LSI logic SCSI adapters and 2 SCSI/SATA RAID array (I moved to external SATA RAID array with SCSI connectivity some years ago). As I don't trust the SATA RAID array that much, they are in raidframe RAID-1 :) The server is running 5.1_STABLE of a few months back. I upgraded several times to get bug fixes. > > [*] Panic on quotaoff, HD failure on parity rebuild, failure to negotiate > sync SCSI with the replacement drive on attach, another panic when trying to > interrupt the reconstruction, lost disklabel on the RAID set afterwards, then > a damaged FS with need for manual fsck. Loads of fun from ~1pm to ~1am. Some of these problems may be fixed in 5.1_STABLE. -- Manuel Bouyer <[email protected]> NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference --
