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Date:      Sat, 9 Jan 1999 00:01:56 +1300
From:      Joe Abley <jabley@clear.co.nz>
To:        Dom Mitchell <dom@myrddin.demon.co.uk>
Cc:        Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@internetcds.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, jabley@clear.co.nz
Subject:   Re: How's 3.0-current as an NFS client?
Message-ID:  <19990109000156.B17962@clear.co.nz>
In-Reply-To: <E0zyAiU-00004K-00.qmail@myrddin.demon.co.uk>; from Dom Mitchell on Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 08:22:54AM %2B0000
References:  <Pine.NEB.3.95.990104172210.634S-100000@schizo.cdsnet.net> <E0zyAiU-00004K-00.qmail@myrddin.demon.co.uk>

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On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 08:22:54AM +0000, Dom Mitchell wrote:
> 
> Personally, I'd still describe it as a tad flaky.  It works for most
> things, but at present, there are at least 3 things I can do with an
> nfs mounted home directory that cause the box to hang.  These include
> starting netscape or xcopilot and sending mail with MH (a bit bizzare
> that last one, I'll admit).  These are mostly just minor annyoances
> for me at the moment which I can live with, but I'd beware of putting
> a heavy NFS load on it.
> 
> This is with a current compiled each Monday morning.

I run 3.0 about as current as you every day as an NFS client, and I have
seen no issues for months. The NFS server in my case is a SPARC Solaris
2.5.1 box, and I am running NFSv2/UDP.

What's your server?


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