From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/35747 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robin S. Socha" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Quimby Upgrade Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 10:12:36 -0400 Message-ID: <20010411101236.B53124@kens.com> References: <20010410162812.7343.qmail@nightshade.la.mastaler.com> <87g0fg56fb.fsf@inanna.rimspace.net> <20010411052354.D46053@kens.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035171438 4706 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:37:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:37:18 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 27142 invoked by alias); 11 Apr 2001 14:12:21 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 27137 invoked from network); 11 Apr 2001 14:12:21 -0000 Original-Received: from kens.com (HELO test.kens.com) (qmailr@129.250.30.40) by gnus.org with SMTP; 11 Apr 2001 14:12:21 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 53828 invoked by uid 1002); 11 Apr 2001 14:12:36 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.15i In-Reply-To: ; from ge204@eng.cam.ac.uk on Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 02:48:48PM +0100 X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ X-URL: https://socha.net/ X-Editor: Vim-600 http://www.vim.org/ Original-Lines: 24 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:35747 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:35747 * Gunnar Evermann [010411 09:53]: > "Robin S. Socha" writes: > > * Daniel Pittman [010411 01:56]: > > > On 10 Apr 2001, Jason R. Mastaler wrote: > > > > NFS, > > > Here, I agree completely. > > Who cares? > For example people who hava a lab full of random machines (Suns, HPs, > x86, SGIs) that all need to access the same set of disks (about 1TB > worth of them). Well... > > AFS and Coda are available. > > honest question: do they give acceptable performance (i.e. comparable > to decent NFSv3 implementations) and stability under heavy load (i.e. > do not crash every other week)? Have you ever worked with AFS? I don't know Coda well enough, but I know AFS and I'd never use NFS unless my life depended on it. Samba over IPSEC anyone? }:->