Looking for big NFS sites

[liam at qmc-cs.UUCP]

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Calling all NFS sites....

The Department of Computer Science & Statistics at Queen Mary
College is looking for other large NFS sites with whom to share
information and experience.


OUR EQUIPMENT
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We have a single Departmental 10MHz Ethernet, which supports a

1       VAX 11/750              running NFS 2.0
2       SUN-2                   running NFS 3.0
6+      SUN-3                   running NFS 3.0
43      Whitechapel MG1         running 42nix 2.6 (NFS 3.0)
2       SUN-3                   running ND

We have an academic NFS source licence.


OUR CONFIGURATION
=================

These machines are involved in widely differing amounts of remote
mounting, ranging from SUN manual pages remote mounted from the VAX,
to 40 MG1s mounting a filestore from each of 3 MG1 servers, one of
them /usr.

This is really pushing NFS - we replaced our PDP 11/70 with 40
MG1s and 3 fileservers, intending that each MG1 should be an
"anonymous processor box" with all student files served from
two central fileservers. The student machines each have only 12M
of local disk for holding binaries and enough to make a working
UNIX system, so further binaries have to be mounted remotely;
we took the plunge and mounted /usr from a file server!


INFORMATION OFFERED/WANTED
==========================

We are interested in knowing how other NFS sites have arranged
things, and any problems/successes they have had. We are
willing to explain our system and to demonstrate it to anyone
who cares to visit us. It has been running for over 6 months,
and we have corrected many of our initial mistakes.

We would also value Do's and Dont's about the SUN ND system,
as we haven't yet set up our diskless nodes.


Please contact:

William Roberts         liam at cs.qmc.AC.UK
                        liam at qmc-cs.UUCP

Sue White               Tel: (UK) 01-980 4811 extn 3917



PS. Are we the biggest academic NFS site in the UK?  Europe?
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William Roberts         ARPA: liam at cs.qmc.ac.uk  (gw: cs.ucl.edu)
Queen Mary College      UUCP: liam at qmc-cs.UUCP
LONDON, UK              Tel:  01-980 4811 ext 3900