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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Laurent GUERBY <laurent@guerby.net>
Cc: Manuel Lauss <mano@roarinelk.homelinux.net>,
	Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@onstor.com>,
	Jon Fraser <jfraser@broadcom.com>,
	Andrew Wiley <debio264@gmail.com>,
	"linux-mips@linux-mips.org" <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>,
	"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: Bigsur?
Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 00:17:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090520231727.GB1656@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1242850869.6098.140.camel@localhost>

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

      reply	other threads:[~2009-05-20 23:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-16  3:14 Bigsur? Andrew Wiley
2009-05-18 14:13 ` Bigsur? Ralf Baechle
2009-05-18 16:13 ` Bigsur? Jon Fraser
2009-05-18 16:31   ` Bigsur? David Daney
2009-05-18 17:23     ` Bigsur? Maciej W. Rozycki
2009-05-18 17:28     ` Bigsur? Markus Gothe
2009-05-18 19:02   ` Bigsur? Imre Kaloz
2009-05-18 19:37     ` Bigsur? Jon Fraser
2009-05-18 22:23   ` Bigsur? Ralf Baechle
2009-05-18 22:47     ` Bigsur? Maciej W. Rozycki
2009-05-19 12:17       ` Bigsur? Laurent GUERBY
2009-05-19 12:53         ` Bigsur? Ralf Baechle
2009-05-20 18:01           ` Bigsur? Andrew Sharp
2009-05-20 19:16             ` Bigsur? Ralf Baechle
2009-05-20 19:22               ` Bigsur? Manuel Lauss
2009-05-20 20:21                 ` Bigsur? Laurent GUERBY
2009-05-20 23:17                   ` Ralf Baechle [this message]

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