[Dovecot] Using NFS - which OS would you chose

Xavier Beaudouin kiwi at oav.net
Sun Oct 8 22:35:18 UTC 2006


Le 8 oct. 06 à 17:35, Francisco Reyes a écrit :

> Xavier Beaudouin writes:
>
>> I have done large deployement with netapp server and freebsd   
>> clients... This working like a charm.... :)
>
> Thanks for feedback.. I guess in short.. FreeBSD client with Netapp  
> server can be said to be "field tested". :-)
>
> If only netapps were not so expensive.

Theay are not... I use ebay for that a F760 is good enougth for most  
usage ... and it is cheap :)

> Also one needs to have a good network. In our case the network  
> person didn't have time/knowledge to troubleshoot why we were  
> getting constant retries on the network and NFS just did not like  
> that.

Maybe you'll have to look around switch / jumbo frames.... contact me  
in private for that :)

/Xavier


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