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03-06-2008, 02:02 PM
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 OpenBSD File Server Throughput Hey all, Do any of you have any experience in how OpenBSD might fair as a file server? I know that a lot of people have said that it might not work so well, but most of the time no one has given me hard numbers and or comparisons of file serving throughput and scalability compared to other Operating Systems. I am looking for different ways of deploying a file server for secure downloads. Can anyone give me some advice as to how OpenBSD would do and what it's weaknesses or strengths in this area might be? -- Aaron Hsu <arcfide@sacrideo.us> | Jabber: arcfide@jabber.org ``Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.'' - Frederic Bastiat      |
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03-06-2008, 02:02 PM
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| Re: OpenBSD File Server Throughput Aaron Hsu wrote: > Hey all, > > Do any of you have any experience in how OpenBSD might fair as a file > server? I know that a lot of people have said that it might not work so > well, but most of the time no one has given me hard numbers and or > comparisons of file serving throughput and scalability compared to other > Operating Systems. > > I am looking for different ways of deploying a file server for secure > downloads. Can anyone give me some advice as to how OpenBSD would do and > what it's weaknesses or strengths in this area might be? > Depending on your needs, you should focus less on the platform and more on the tools and protocols you expect to use. You can make BitTorrent pretty secure if you want. Ditto, if all you need is a place that services SSH/sftp clients of some sort. Scalability and throughput is generally going to be limited by your pipe. Again, this depends on your application. What problem are you trying to solve? -- clvrmnky <mailto:spamtrap@clevermonkey.org> Direct replies to this address will be blacklisted. Replace "spamtrap" with my name to contact me directly. |
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03-06-2008, 02:02 PM
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| Re: OpenBSD File Server Throughput Clever Monkey <spamtrap@clevermonkey.org.INVALID> writes: > Aaron Hsu wrote: > >> I am looking for different ways of deploying a file server for secure >> downloads. Can anyone give me some advice as to how OpenBSD would do and >> what it's weaknesses or strengths in this area might be? > > Scalability and throughput is generally going to be limited by your > pipe. Again, this depends on your application. What problem are you > trying to solve? I am working on a back-end for a web application which will serve files in a `secure' manner to an end-user via a web browser. That is, authentication data is availabe to these servers, and when a file is requested from them, it must be able to authenticate that the user asking for the data is in fact authorized for this file. Also, are there any existing facilities for doing this one OpenBSD already? I don't want the user to be asked for authentication information, because that information should already have been given when they accessed the rest of the web aplication. -- Aaron Hsu <arcfide@sacrideo.us> | Jabber: arcfide@jabber.org ``Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.'' - Frederic Bastiat |
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