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Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 17:17:55 -0500 (EST)
From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
To: "Viren R. Shah" <viren@rstcorp.com>
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Subject: Re: 2.2.6 for NFS server
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On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Viren R. Shah wrote:

> 1. Is 2.2.6 close enough that we should put off installing 2.2-STABLE
>    for a few days? Or in other terms, are there enough stability
>    improvements in 2.2.6 that we should definitely wait for it.
> 
> 2. I've seen a few mentions of NFS problems on 2.2.5. Are there any
>    big gotchas wrt using a 2.2.x box as an NFS server?

Depends on your clients.  For 2.2.5, I can confirm that Solaris
and Digital Unix clients do NOT work using nfs v3.  Digital Unix
works fine if you specify v2 when mounting.  Telling FreeBSD
mountd to only accept v2 does not seem to allow mounts from
Solaris clients using their automounter (I'm not the admin of the
Solaris boxes in question so I can't do much more investigation.)

In other words: Try it out.

The most obvious symptom of the v3 problems with Solaris and
Digital Unix are with large directories--listings will be
incomplete.  For example if you have 200 files in a directory, it
may take three or four rm * commands to actually remove
everything.

I have not been paying much attention to the 2.2.5 to 2.2.6
changes.  A fix for this v3 incompatibility would be most welcome
(but far beyond my hacking skills).

-john


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