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Date:      Thu, 26 Feb 1998 08:48:14 +0200 (IST)
From:      Yuri Gindin <yuri@xpert.com>
To:        John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
Cc:        "Viren R. Shah" <viren@rstcorp.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 2.2.6 for NFS server
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.3.95.980226084246.30603A-100000@xpert.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980225170510.3416E-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>

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On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, John Fieber wrote:

John,

> 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.)
> 
Don't know about Dunix but solaris-2.6 works. I had some problems 
with programs requiring locks, such as top, lsof, netscape but after I
started rpc.lockd on FreeBSD everything went fine even with NFSv3.
> 
> 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.
Just checked this and everything worked fine.
I'm on 2.2.5-stable.


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