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From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
To: Tom <tom@uniserve.com>
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Subject: Re: NFS in -stable
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On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Tom wrote:
> Is NFSv2 or NFSv3 recommended for 3.2-stable?  I'm primarily interested
> in the NFS client, versus a NetApp NFS server.

I don't know about NetApps and we haven't retested this with 3.3 on a
better network, but a FreeBSD 3.2 client against a Solaris 2.6 server
running NFSv3 is a big No!

Caused us quite some (nearly) infinite hangs on the client side. Once
we enforced NFSv2, all problems went away.

Gerald
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