From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Oleg Drokin Subject: Re: NFS setup for a reiserfs-based /home Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 17:37:18 +0400 Message-ID: <20020925173718.A17138@namesys.com> References: <20020924215756.GA24963@jerry.marcet.dyndns.org> <20020925114009.B23339@namesys.com> <200209251533.19567.Dieter.Nuetzel@hamburg.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200209251533.19567.Dieter.Nuetzel@hamburg.de> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Dieter N?tzel Cc: Javier Marcet , reiserfs-list 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