Subject: Linux and NFS
From: Speedracer (spdracer@america.com)
Date: Fri Nov 26 1999 - 07:31:46 AKST
I've been drooling over the alpha powered apservers for our production
news server. When tested it was blazingly fast. The problem is I don't
have 100k to spend on one.
So, necessity being the mother of invention, I was thinking of building
one, based on an alpha linux box with NFS. The problem is that NFS (last
I knew) didn't have read ahead and write later capability. It would need
this if it's to be fast enough to fill in for a NAS device. It also
wasn't too awful secure (NFS security STILL scares me!!).
My questions: Who is maintaining the NFS code?? Do they have a home
page? Are there performance tuning tips to get NFS to be faster? (read
ahead capability etc) How about security, can I use an encrypted
connection?
I've been looking on the net and the usual places (sun systems home page,
linuxhq, yahoo altavista) but think I'm asking for to much from NFS and
haven't really found ANYTHING about performance tuning. If anybody can
point me in the right direction I'd really appreciate it :)
TIA
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