Re: RHEL4 NFS

[Tom Sightler <ttsig tuxyturvy com>]

On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 15:18 -0400, Derek T. Yarnell wrote:
> How stable do you view the NFS implementation is in RHEL4, at U1-U2 time 
> frame we had just a basic 2850 with disks in belly serving NFS that 
> would randomly just hang or crash.  The same chassis now runs RHEL3 
> serving the same data and content with no problems at all. (it was 
> re-installed numerous times to make sure we just didn't have a bad 
> kernel or sectors or whatever)
> 
> I have a hard time justifying trying NFS again on RHEL4 after the 
> disaster we had before with it.  Anyone with any thoughts on this?

We have a central NFS server with about 500GB of storage (not a lot
nowadays I guess).  It's running on a Dell 2650 and gets a good workout
during standard business hours, although mostly reads.  At night there
are large extract jobs which do heavy writes.

This system was upgraded to RHEL4 in the last few weeks (basically, once
U3 passed our internal regression testing).  So far it's been solid.

We also have several RHEL4 systems running on Dell 2850 hardware.  They
don't do NFS but they have been solid.  We run the x86_64 version, not
the 32-bit version.

Do you think your problem was related to NFS or due to some other issue
with the kernel on that server?

Later,
Tom