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Date:      Tue, 21 Sep 1999 12:42:31 -0400
From:      "David E. Cross" <crossd@cs.rpi.edu>
To:        "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
Cc:        "David E. Cross" <crossd@cs.rpi.edu>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, crossd@cs.rpi.edu
Subject:   Re: missing files with NFSv3 and Solaris2.7 machine... 
Message-ID:  <199909211642.MAA44933@cs.rpi.edu>
In-Reply-To: Message from "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>  of "Tue, 21 Sep 1999 14:54:30 %2B0900." <37E71D96.DDB52269@newsguy.com> 

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> > We have a number of solaris 2.78 machines (I am in the process of installing
> > them now), and I notice that if I ls a directory that is mounted NFSv3/UDP from
> > a FreeBSD server to a Solaris 2.7 client there are a number of files that
> > show up missing.  This is most intreaging with a large untar as I can do
> > 'ls | wc -l' in a directory and watch the numbers dance:
> 
> ...
> > 
> > Any ideas what isn't working correctly?
> 
> This looks like something that was discussed maybe a couple of
> months ago. It turned out to be a bug in the Solaris implementation,
> which is something some people did not accept because the Solaris
> implementation is the reference implementation (yeah, I'll call all
> my programs "reference implementation" from now on :). FreeBSD is
> working according to NFS specs, but Solaris isn't.

Count me as one of the ones who do not accept this answer.  I realize that
the Sun code may very well have bugs in it.  I also know that what we have
right now "doesn't work" with sun clients.  I believe that we have made
modifications to our TCP/IP stack  code to deal with windows machines who
are not to spec, could we not do the same for sun and NFS?

Alternately, we have a sun support contract, and if someone could detail to
me exactly how they are not compliant I will try to file a bug report.

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David Cross                               | email: crossd@cs.rpi.edu 
Systems Administrator/Research Programmer | Web: http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~crossd 
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,         | Ph: 518.276.2860            
Department of Computer Science            | Fax: 518.276.4033
I speak only for myself.                  | WinNT:Linux::Linux:FreeBSD


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