Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 12:43:56 -0400 (EDT) From: CyberPeasant <djv@bedford.net> To: brendan@bmkind.lnk.telstra.net (Brendan Kosowski) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NFS Questions Message-ID: <199806041643.MAA11337@lucy.bedford.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980605003804.4752A-100000@bmkind.lnk.telstra.net> from Brendan Kosowski at "Jun 5, 98 00:40:10 am"
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Brendan Kosowski wrote:
>
> Can a Linux system mount a FreeBSD NFS server ???
>
> And what about the other way around ???
Yup. Both ways. On the Linux side, you will want to check the man
pages and set the options that insist on using a privileged port
when mounting. (Somebody over there thought it was a stupid idea
and got rid of it, calling the rest of the world "obsolete and broken",
I believe. That's the bazaar model of development for you.)
If your experience matches mine, you will discover that BSD of any
flavor is a superior NFS server. This is a Linux weak-area.
Because of breakage in Linux's design (deep in the kernel), you
will probably want to use block sizes of 1024 for NFS involving
linux. (on BSD these are the -r and -w options to mount_nfs, and
can be set in /etc/fstab, or when mounting:
mount linux.box.net:/foo/ /bar -o -r=1024 -w=1024
Check with a linux hacker if you still need to do this. (The default
size is 8192, I believe). You might want to add a -I=1024, too.
The same sort of thing should be done on the linux box when mounting
a volume from the bsd (or any other) box.
Dave
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