>>>>> "Nix" == Nix <nix@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: Nix> On 23 Jun 2020, John Stoffel told this: >> You also don't say how *big* your disks will be, and if your 5 bay NAS >> box can even split like that, and if it has the CPU to handle that. >> Is it an NFS connection to the rest of your systems? Nix> Side note: NFSv4 really is much much better at this stuff than v3 Nix> ever was. With a fast enough network connection, I find NFSv4 as Nix> fast for more or less all workloads as NFSv3 was, mostly because Nix> of the lease support in v4 allowing client-side caching of the Nix> vast majority of files and directories that are either not Nix> written to or only written to by one client in a given short time Nix> window. (Obviously it also helps if your network is fast enough: Nix> 1GbE is going to be saturated many times over by a RAID array of Nix> any but the slowest modern HDDs. 10GbE and small 10GbE-capable Nix> switches are not very costly these days and is definitely worth Nix> investing in on the NFS server and any clients you care about.) I've been thinking about moving to NFSv4 at home, since my main file server has my main desktop as an NFS and LDAP client for authentication. Works quite well, and I don't care if my dekstop reboots on my, since the homedir is elsewhere. John
