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Communications Messaging System) with HTTP; Wed, 05 Jul 2006 02:50:39 -0700 Message-ID: <20060705025039.q1ftty7o0csw84ko@webmail.1command.com> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 02:50:39 -0700 From: "Chris H." To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <20060703122210.GA46625@lpthe.jussieu.fr> In-Reply-To: <20060703122210.GA46625@lpthe.jussieu.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=_7c81nw2yt8o4"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="pgp-sha1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: H.R. Communications Internet Messaging System (HCIMS) 4.1 Professional (not for redistribution) / FreeBSD-5.5 Subject: Re: NFS Locking Issue X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 09:50:43 -0000 This message is in MIME format and has been PGP signed. --=_7c81nw2yt8o4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Quoting Michel Talon : >> 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 > NFS mounted on the server. On the other hand a Debian client machine > also has > 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. 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. > > > -- > > Michel TALON > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- panic: kernel trap (ignored) ----------------------------------------------------------------- FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p12 (SMP - 900x2) Tue Mar 7 19:37:23 PST 2006 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// --=_7c81nw2yt8o4 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: PGP Digital Signature Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBEq4tvXxK1cRs0zxkRAhblAJ98+XCLdZHwgWWrVLe4BoR9Jm/14gCfQvI2 zGlmyxeoHwmvAMQsY+jd8fc= =IXpM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=_7c81nw2yt8o4--