RE: NFS between Linux and Solaris

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On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 15:58, Rigler, Steve wrote:
> We experienced similar issues but between different platforms.
> 
> The machine serving filesystems was an Irix 6.5.13 machine and
> the client was running RH7.1 on Itanium 2's.  Both machines are
> on the same VLAN.
> 
> Copying to NFS mounts would hang (errors would be logged in messages 
> about  the NFS server being unavailable) and there were issues with
> data corruption.  The problem was easily reproduceable.  Specifying 
> NFSv2 on the client seemed to clear it up.
> 
> Since then the client machine was upgraded to AS2.1 and the
> problem went away, although I still hear occasional complaints
> about slow data transfers which I haven't been able to validate.
> 
> Based on what you've described and our experience it seems like there
> are differences between the NFS implementations.  The problem seems
> to be that it varies between OS levels.

There are no "hangs" or delays.  I believe what you are describing was a
known issue with IRIX as per the Linux NFS site:

http://nfs.sourceforge.net/#section_e

-- 
Jason Dixon, RHCE
DixonGroup Consulting
http://www.dixongroup.net


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