Re: NFS setup for a reiserfs-based /home

[Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>]

Hello!

On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 03:33:19PM +0200, Dieter N?tzel wrote:
> > > As I said, I'm a newbie on NFS, and I've been reading quite a lot about
> > > the interactions of it with journalling file systems. Namely, last thing
> > > I remeber is I should put the journal on a different volume, if at all
> > No, this is not required for NFS (And never was).
> > There is nothing special about running NFS off reiserfs (v3.6 on-disk
> > format) filesystems. (in case of kernel nfsd, there are some difficulties
> > with userspace nfsd, so it should be avoided).
> Excuse me but this is not clear for me.
> Oleg, you told him to avoid knfsd?

No I said to avoid unfsd (I already made that clear in separate private email)

> > You may want to put your /home volume on some kind of RAID1 device to
> > increase data safeness from hardware errors and to increase access (read)
> > speed. (but this is storage space ineffective of course).
> I'll suggest RAID5 (4 or more disks plus 1 or more spare) for all your 
> storage.

RAID5 is CPU hungry on writes, also writes are slower compared to RAID1.

Bye,
    Oleg