Hi - but you could try putting just the FSL distribution on a local
drive - you don't need to backup FSL!
Cheers.
On 22 May 2007, at 17:55, Lokke Highstein wrote:
> unfortunately this is the system i am stuck with, i don't have the
> luxury of rebuilding the system from scratch.
>
> one option is the dedicate a desktop sun to serving the
> applications directory, but this is far from ideal, as it wouldn't
> be on a raid and would require a separate backup solution.
>
> i would much rather make this work if i can.
>
> and FYI i am running NFS for sharing purposes, it's a bit buggy,
> but once we reverted the solaris clients to NFS v2 instead of NFS
> v3 things worked much better.
>
> On May 22, 2007, at 2:49 AM, Steve Smith wrote:
>
>> Indeed - though even that's not good enough - Apple's
>> implementation of NFS sucks, we had problems even with that. I
>> just wouldn't use them for file serving (just everything else :)
>>
>> Cheers.
>>
>>
>> On 22 May 2007, at 08:47, Andrew Janke wrote:
>>
>>> On 22/05/07, Steve Smith <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>> Yeah - I would STRONGLY recommend that you just don't serve $FSLDIR
>>>> from a Mac server onto your Sun - you will find it much easier to
>>>> solve these problems if you just host it locally - plus there are
>>>> many problems with Apple's file server software that will probably
>>>> cause problems for you, unrelated to getting FSL running.
>>>
>>> Agreed. Unless of course you happen to reformat you Xraid/OSX
>>> disk to
>>> be case sensitive and you use NFS to share out the disk on the Mac.
>>> (not AFP). Of course what I have just described turns your shiny
>>> piece of glowing fruit into a generic beige box, but those are the
>>> breaks.
>>>
>>>
>>> a (been there tried that).
>>>
>>> PS: I do like macs, just not for all things.
>>
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