Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 14:22:10 +0200 From: Michel Talon <talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS Locking Issue Message-ID: <20060703122210.GA46625@lpthe.jussieu.fr>
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> So it would appear that you cured the NFS problems inherent with FBSD-6 > by replacing FBSD with Fedora Linux. Nice to know that NFSd works in Linux. > But won't help those on the FBSD list fix their FBSD-6 boxen. :/ > First NFS is designed to make machines of different OSs interact properly. If a FreeBSD server interacts properly with a FreeBSD client, but not other clients, you cannot say that the situation is fine. Second i am not the one to chose the NFS server, there are people working in social groups, in the real world. And third, the most important, the OP message seemed to imply that the FreeBSD-6 NFS client was at fault, i pointed out that in my experience my FreeBSD-6.1 client works OK, while the 6.0 doesn't, when interacting with a FC5 server. This is in itself a relevant piece of information for the problem at hand. It may be that the server side is at fault, or some complex interaction between client and server. Anyways some people claimed here that they had no problem with FreeBSD-5 clients and servers. My experience is that i had constant problems between FreeBSD-5 clients and Fedora Core 3 servers. I cannot provide any other data point. I am not particularly sure of the quality of the FC3 or FC5 NFS server implementation, except that the ~ 100 workstations running the similar Fedora distribution work like a charm with their homes NFS mounted on the server. On the other hand a Debian client machine also has severe NFS problems. My only conclusion is that these NFS stories are very tricky. The only moment everything worked fine was when we were running Solaris on the server. -- Michel TALON
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