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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!sgigate.sgi.com!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!oleane!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.mathworks.com!newscaster-1.mcast.net!informatik.uni-bremen.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD suitable as Fileserver OS? Date: 15 Jun 1996 19:15:29 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4pv24h$84e@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <31C1E470.7BBF@blackwhite.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Alexander Kotopoulis <alex@blackwhite.com> wrote: > I'm considering right now to use FreeBSD for a Fileserver for a network > of about 15 workstations with different UNIXes such as Solaris, HP-UX, > IRIX. The server would have about 15GB disk space and would consist of a > powerful Pentium with fast SCSI and Ethernet hardware. > Can FreeBSD handle such a task? Easily. The only weak point is that there's no NFS file locking support yet. (There's a lockd stub in the recent sources, but it does no actual locking, it's merely a dummy.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)