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- From: system@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (System Admin (Mike Peterson))
- Subject: Re: NFS, HP730 and Apollos
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.041824.10660@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>
- Keywords: NFS HP730 Apollo
- Organization: University of Toronto Chemistry Department
- References: <1710@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 04:18:24 GMT
- Lines: 28
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- In article <1710@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk> pearmana@prl.philips.co.uk writes:
- >
- >We have an HP730 which mounts the whole of our Apollo ring onto /apollo.
- >We have about 50 Apollos.
- >
- >Basically it mounts apollo1:// onto /apollo
- >
- >so that in /apollo you get apollo1, apollo2, apollo3 etc etc for each
- >Apollo on the Apollo network.
-
- In general, Domain nodes are horrible NFS servers (and clients),
- even with NFS 2.3; and, you have bottlenecked all your NFS traffic
- through your token ring gateway system and "apollo1" (which may
- be the same node). I hope those nodes are top-of-the-line
- DNxxx(x) systems, whatever that is these days (our DN2500, DN4500
- and DN10000 systems have so many NFS hesitations they are next
- to useless since all our home directories are on HP-UX systems).
-
- Note that as of NFS 3.0 on Domain, it will be strongly discouraged
- to mount your entire Apollo file system this way; you should use
- the "normal" NFS mounting scheme of mounting each node separately
- on other nodes. You may want to use the automounter to deal
- with 50+ mounts on the HP - make sure you get the HP-UX
- automounter patches so your HP doesn't go belly up the first
- time an Apollo crashes/reboots.
- --
- What are the chances that any computer system will ever "work" properly?
- ... and Slim just left town. -*- Mike Peterson, SysAdmin, U/Toronto Chemistry
-