RE: CVS over NFS

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Tuesday, May 7, 2002 at 08:27:38 (-0700), Shatzer, Larry wrote: ]
> Subject: RE:  CVS over NFS
>
> Thanks for your response, the problem with disks is this is on a HP-UX
> machine, and disks are slightly more expensive, and most of the disk space
> is going to be allocated to running Oracle databases on the local disks,
> since we do not want to attempt running an oracle database off NFS.

Is that because you have a service contract that HP uses to strong-arm
you into buying only brand-name parts?  Generic disks are not that
expensive and I assume the HP, if it's anywhere near modern, uses either
standard SCSI or maybe FC interfaces.

> I've tried to pitch a dedicated server to run cvs, plus a few other
> lightweight applications. In today's economic conditions, that is easier
> said then done.

I understand....  The basic hardware you need to probably even
out-perform the HP would likely only cost about $5,000.  In comparison
to the NAS and HP box that should seem like chicken-feed!  ;-)

Are you sure you want to share two highly disk-I/O-intensive
applications on the same server though?  This "cost-saving" measure
might cost you more than real $$$$ in the long run.....

> Between our NAS and all our main servers we do have a gigabit connection, so
> that might not be an issue, but as Gianni Mariani also mentioned in another
> email, file locking might be an issue, or might not.

Well, HP is not known for their NFS, either client or server....
They're probably a lot stronger on the server side too, so as a client
host you'll be getting the short end of the stick.

> (Just a side note, every email I get from you to this mailing list shows up
> as this below, but not over the email-news gateway, it could be my exchange
> server, or something else.)
> 
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Something in the middle, or rather closer to your end likely, is
trashing the X-face: header my mailer adds -- i.e. there's some
non-RFC-822 compliant program handling the message somewhere...

My posts to the list come back properly formed so it's not the MLM or
any MTA between me and it....

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