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- From: gordon@madmax.uwaterloo.ca (Gordon R. Strachan)
- Subject: Re: How to server clients over more than one LAN?
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- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 20:51:47 GMT
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- In article <1ihq1jINN6ht@loon.graphics.cornell.edu> hurf@boa.graphics.cornell.edu (Hurf Sheldon) writes:
- >Keywords
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- >|> This disadvantage could hypothetically be one reason for moving away
- >|> from Diskless to more industry-standard protocols.
- >
- > I don't see the wisdom in sh*tcanning something that works so well
- > on the basis of 'industry standard' unless there is a standard
- > that is better. I run HP clusters because it is easier than
- > the industry standard and file i/o between systems is often 100%
- > of ethernet bandwidth (how do you do that, anyway?) while the
- > industry standard is hard pressed to do 20% (of ethernet bandwidth)
- > in anything approaching a loaded environment.
-
- Its even worse than that. I have no idea how I would go about implementing a
- mixed cluster using NFS when HPUX doesn't implement disk partitioning. I
- guess you would have to buy a whole truck load of small disks. Either that
- or have symbolic links crossing all over your file system. I certainly
- would consider this a step backwards and really hope doesn't do this (at least
- not for a long time). I wouldn't mind HP moving to a different more open
- standard but at least I would hope they moved to something better. At least
- give us a solution that is designed to support a hetrogenous filesystem. In my
- opinion NFS can be made to do this but it really doesn't cut it.
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- >
- >--
- > Hurf Sheldon Network: hurf@graphics.cornell.edu
-
- Gordon
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