Re: NAS system

Johan A. van Zanten wrote:
> Brad du Plessis <[email protected]> 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 :-)

>  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 
when new, which dropped to 5MB/sec until the the firmware upgrade. 
likewise I am not using jumbo frames. I have a high turnover of large 
files and keep the fs near full most of the time so I cannot expect good 
performance. The forums have suggested that buying the 1GB RAM 
version/upgrade increases performance especially with the builtin media 
servers.

Simon