Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Substitute Linux by MacOS???
From: Richard Mann (rich@morgana.pubserv.com)
Date: Tue Feb 10 1998 - 12:52:48 EST
On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, Gary E. Bickford wrote:
> According to my compatriots here, folks generally shouldn't use the MacOS
> for servers, but should use the Workgroup Server. Same reason as there's
> NT workstation and NT server - the std. OS8 is set up for workstations, and
> doesn't have the performance tuning & features you need.
>
> That said, a lot of folks grudgingly admit the NT appleshare server is
> faster, for now... (choke, gasp)
> GEB
Says who? When I run NT Server 4.0 on a machine with the
exact same hardware as our Linux server, the NT's Apple file
sharing is dramatically slower than the Linux box's.
We had to bail out of NT [3.51] after about one year, due
to the poor performance of NT and DiskShare NFS for NT.
We've been running InfoMagic Workgroup Server v. 2.1
(based on RedHat 4.1) since it came out last year, and
all of a sudden network filesharing to the Macs was no
longer an issue. (Besides a few MacOS shortcomings...)
This in sharing about 45 GB of data SCSI-3, 80% of that
to Mac's.
(Sound of steps leaving soap box...)
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