From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Thu, 21 May 2009 00:17:53 +0100 (BST) Received: from h5.dl5rb.org.uk ([81.2.74.5]:55532 "EHLO h5.dl5rb.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S20025163AbZETXRr (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 May 2009 00:17:47 +0100 Received: from h5.dl5rb.org.uk (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by h5.dl5rb.org.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n4KNHTxm009229; Thu, 21 May 2009 00:17:29 +0100 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by h5.dl5rb.org.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n4KNHRfC009227; Thu, 21 May 2009 00:17:27 +0100 Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 00:17:27 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle To: Laurent GUERBY Cc: Manuel Lauss , Andrew Sharp , Jon Fraser , Andrew Wiley , "linux-mips@linux-mips.org" , "Maciej W. Rozycki" Subject: Re: Bigsur? Message-ID: <20090520231727.GB1656@linux-mips.org> References: <1242663215.18301.26.camel@chaos.ne.broadcom.com> <20090518222334.GD16847@linux-mips.org> <1242735440.6098.101.camel@localhost> <20090519125310.GA17733@linux-mips.org> <20090520110105.6fb81573@ripper.onstor.net> <20090520191618.GA32295@linux-mips.org> <20090520212243.0a023a22@scarran.roarinelk.net> <1242850869.6098.140.camel@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1242850869.6098.140.camel@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 22896 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 10:21:09PM +0200, Laurent GUERBY wrote: > > I rebuilt a whole Gentoo system from scratch natively over an NFSroot-- > > it was actually very painless; add distcc and the time to wait is a > > lot shorter. > > One of the farm machine is a Marvell sheevaplug with root over NFS > (gentoo based with marvell.git kernel) and it does multi user > compilations all day long with no issue so far. For your entertainment: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9629799/apdxa.htm http://www.time-travellers.org/shane/papers/NFS_considered_harmful.html NFSv4 fixes alot of issues but is only slowly being adopted. Also iSCSI might be worth trying; it would completely solve all the NFS issues. Ralf