Hi all, I was just wanting to find out if anyone can give advice about using NAS systems with a NetBSD based system as a client. I'm also looking for information about what NAS systems have been tried and tested with NetBSD. Any information would be much appreciated. Thanks, Brad
Brad du Plessis <bradd <at> cat.co.za> wrote: > Hi all, > > I was just wanting to find out if anyone can give advice about using NAS > systems with a NetBSD based system as a client. I'm also looking for > information about what NAS systems have been tried and tested with NetBSD. I use an Infrant (now Netgear) ReadyNAS NV+ with my NetBSD machines, and a Mac OS X machine. With an older version of their OS, "RAIDiator," 3.x, there was a problem with NFS locking. It's been fixed in the 4x release, which i think is current shipping. RAIDiator is based on Linux. The problem was actually in some badly-written rpc code in an older rev. of the Linux 2.4 kernel, which i mentioned because there may be some other NAS devices out there based on the 2.4 Linux kernel, and it took me some time to figure out why vi kept hanging. (Older revs of FreeBSD and OS X also had similar problems.) the 4.x rev of RAIDiator uses the 2.6 Linux kernel, IIRC. I like the ReadyNAS NV+ pretty well, but it's a bit slow with four SATA drives. I get about 20MB/sec. read but only about 5 MB/sec. writes. (The bottleneck is CPU.) I'm not using Jumbo frames, but i am using gigabit Ethernet and have increased the Read and Write sizes. Web management with CLI (ssh) access. I'd be 100% happy with it, except for the low write throughput. For the price i paid (~$500 US, no drives) it was a good deal.(Continue reading)
Johan A. van Zanten wrote: > Brad du Plessis <bradd <at> cat.co.za> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I was just wanting to find out if anyone can give advice about using NAS >> systems with a NetBSD based system as a client. I'm also looking for >> information about what NAS systems have been tried and tested with NetBSD. > > > I use an Infrant (now Netgear) ReadyNAS NV+ with my NetBSD machines, and > a Mac OS X machine. +1 for readynas. After 16,000 hours, 1 failed hard disc and a flash upgrade to 3.01, I have to say it was a pain free experience. It just works(Continue reading)> With an older version of their OS, "RAIDiator," 3.x, there was a problem > with NFS locking. It's been fixed in the 4x release, which i think is > current shipping. RAIDiator is based on Linux. likewise I experienced some quirks with 2.x firmware but 3.01 is fine with my setup. > I like the ReadyNAS NV+ pretty well, but it's a bit slow with four SATA > drives. I get about 20MB/sec. read but only about 5 MB/sec. writes. (The > bottleneck is CPU.) I'm not using Jumbo frames, but i am using gigabit > Ethernet and have increased the Read and Write sizes. I get 11MB/sec writes, although I got 14+MB/sec for many months while
Johan A. van Zanten wrote: > With an older version of their OS, "RAIDiator," 3.x, there was a problem > with NFS locking. It's been fixed in the 4x release, which i think is > current shipping. RAIDiator is based on Linux Thanks for your detailed reply. Is NFS is the most common file system a NetBSD client would use with NAS? Brad
Brad du Plessis <bradd <at> cat.co.za> wrote: > Is NFS is the most common file system a NetBSD client would use with NAS? Hmm.. if memory serves, the network file systems NetBSD can mount are: NFS SMBFS ... and maybe AFP with the netatalk package. Of those three i'd definitely choose NFS. I've never tried to mount an SMB file system on a Unix machine, so i can't comment on how well it works or performance. -johan
On Thu, 20 Mar 2008, Johan A. van Zanten wrote: > Hmm.. if memory serves, the network file systems NetBSD can mount are: > > NFS > SMBFS > ... and maybe AFP with the netatalk package. Also see pkgsrc/filesystems/fuse-afpfs-ng And Coda. NetBSD kernels can be built with Coda support. (Many ports have it enabled by default.) And coda (and coda5) kernel modules are available with NetBSD. See http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/ and pkgsrc/net/coda Also other fuse filesystems (in pkgsrc) can be used to as simple network-based file systems using webdav, ssh, ftp, http, smb, and others. Jeremy C. Reed
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