Hi, I'm still looking at a large (under 100,000) user deployment of Dovecot, with a NetApp NFS server as the back-end storage. I've read a few remarks about needing the latest NFS patches from Trond Myklebust to prevent lock-ups. My management would be happiest with a vendor-supported distribution (and especially Suse Linux Enterprise Server 9 or 10). We will be running on an x86 platform. Under these circumstances, which operating system/distribution would you choose? And why? Suse SLES9 OpenSuse Debian RedHat FreeBSD Solaris_x86 Nexenta (www.nexenta.org) Many thanks for your thoughts/war stories. Jonathan.
Jonathan writes:> Under these circumstances, which operating system/distribution > would you choose? And why? > FreeBSDJust a quick comment on FreeBSD. I would NOT recommend it for a NFS server; However if you have a clean network with a NetAPP you could use it as a client. I have read of large deployments of NetAPP server with FreeBSD clients. In particular I believe Yahoo is doing that configuration. Don't also forget that whatever you choose it should be something you are either already familiar or willing to learn. If you get feedback that OS ABC is best.. but you have never used it then it is a mutt point. Perhaps you should decide which OSs you are most familiar with or are willing to learn and then from that small pool see which is good/best at NFS.
On 2006-10-02 16:04:47 +0100, Jonathan wrote:> Suse SLES9 > OpenSuseone of those of course. latest dovecot can be found at http://software.opensuse.org/download/server:/mail/ darix -- openSUSE - SUSE Linux is my linux openSUSE is good for you www.opensuse.org
On October 2, 2006 4:04:47 PM +0100 Jonathan <dovecot at redigloo.org> wrote:> Under these circumstances, which operating system/distribution > would you choose? And why?Solaris. There's no question that it's the most stable, best supported and specifically for NFS has the most robust implementation. It's also cheaper than RedHat. Don't know about Suse. The other distros you listed aren't supported so they seem not to meet your criteria. -frank