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
prev parent 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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