From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 4 10:04:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA15511 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 10:04:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lucy.bedford.net (lucy.bedford.net [206.99.145.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA15379 for ; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 10:04:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from listread@lucy.bedford.net) Received: (from listread@localhost) by lucy.bedford.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA11337; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 12:43:57 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from listread) Message-Id: <199806041643.MAA11337@lucy.bedford.net> Subject: Re: NFS Questions In-Reply-To: from Brendan Kosowski at "Jun 5, 98 00:40:10 am" To: brendan@bmkind.lnk.telstra.net (Brendan Kosowski) Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 12:43:56 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-no-archive: yes Reply-to: djv@bedford.net From: CyberPeasant X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brendan Kosowski wrote: > > Can a Linux system mount a FreeBSD NFS server ??? > > And what about the other way around ??? Yup. Both ways. On the Linux side, you will want to check the man pages and set the options that insist on using a privileged port when mounting. (Somebody over there thought it was a stupid idea and got rid of it, calling the rest of the world "obsolete and broken", I believe. That's the bazaar model of development for you.) If your experience matches mine, you will discover that BSD of any flavor is a superior NFS server. This is a Linux weak-area. Because of breakage in Linux's design (deep in the kernel), you will probably want to use block sizes of 1024 for NFS involving linux. (on BSD these are the -r and -w options to mount_nfs, and can be set in /etc/fstab, or when mounting: mount linux.box.net:/foo/ /bar -o -r=1024 -w=1024 Check with a linux hacker if you still need to do this. (The default size is 8192, I believe). You might want to add a -I=1024, too. The same sort of thing should be done on the linux box when mounting a volume from the bsd (or any other) box. Dave -- DISCLAIMER: If it can be disclaimed, it is. DISCLAIMER: In particular, I don't represent any organization. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message