Re: NFS Locking Issue

[Chris H.]

Quoting Michel Talon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

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.

Yes, this is it's purpose.

If a FreeBSD server interacts properly with a FreeBSD client, but not other
clients, you cannot say that the situation is fine.

Indeed.

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.

Of course. I quite agree. Horrible oversight on my part.

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

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.

NFS mounted on the server. On the other hand a Debian client machine also has

Useful knowledge, to be sure.
Sorry for my oversight. I should probably refrain from responding when I
have too many other things purculating in my mind while at work. This
has gotten me in trouble once before on this _same_ list. :)

Thank you for your thoughtful response.

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Michel TALON

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