Re: linux dom0 versus NetBSD dom0

[Zafer Aydoğan <zafer%aydogan.de@localhost>]

2012/1/11 Mouse <mouse%rodents-montreal.org@localhost>:
> Most of this is stuff I'm not really competent to comment on.  But...
>
>> 2.  We know we can use the xbd driver to provide virtual disks in
>> NetBSD, but are other storage technologies mature in the NetBSD
>> environment?  I'm thinking aboutthings like ISCSI, NFS, or other
>> network storage technologies.
>
> My experience with NFS is mostly limited to NetBSD on both ends, often
> widely disparate NetBSD (eg, SPARC 4.0.1 client and i386 1.4T server).
> It has been rock solid for me.  I have even done relatively insane
> things like NFS mounts with a SLIP link and an inter-city VPN hop
> between client and server; it's Just Worked.  (It killed performance,
> but for this I didn't care if it took two minutes instead of 20
> milliseconds to copy what I wanted...).
>
> This is in notable contrast to Linux NFS, which I have tried to use
> only a little, but have had some minor trouble with; cow-orkers at the
> relevant job, who have used Linux much more heavily than I, tell me
> Linux NFS is just plain flaky.
>
> So, if you end up wanting to use NFS for whatever reason, you might
> want to give NetBSD preference.
>
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I can't agree with mouse.
We have a heavily used large nfs server running on Ubuntu in our company
which works flawlessly since  3+ years.

Zafer.