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Date:      Tue, 17 Nov 1998 17:17:46 +0100 (CET)
From:      Remy Nonnenmacher <remy@synx.com>
To:        cejkar@dcse.fee.vutbr.cz
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Is it soup yet? FreeBSD NFS
Message-ID:  <199811171622.RAA10676@rt2.synx.com>
In-Reply-To: <199811131604.RAA08265@kazi.dcse.fee.vutbr.cz>

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On 13 Nov, Cejka Rudolf wrote:
> 
>> > Everyone seems to be talking about using FreeBSD as an NFS client,
>> > how does FreeBSD do as a NFS server?
>> > 
>> >     -J
>> > 
>> 
>> I'm going to be using NFS extensively at home for a while, I'll let you
>> know.
>> 
>> Last time I used it, it wasn't the most stable thing.  A NFS mounted
>> buildworld crashed the server once, but then worked fine after that.
>> 
>> - -Alfred
> 
> We have long-time problems (not critical) with NFS server running
> on FreeBSD 2.2.6/2.2.7/3.0 against Solaris 2.5/2.6 clients there.
> 
> Our problem:
> 
> FreeBSD: NFS server without any special parameters.
> Solaris: NFS client without any special parameters.
> 
> Example - working on Solaris above mounted filesystem from FreeBSD:
> 
> $ gzcat less-332.tar.gz | tar xvf -	# This creates 74 files in
> 					# directory less-332
> $ rm -r less-332			# This _leaves_ 43 files!
> rm: Unable to remove directory less-332: File exists
> $ rm -r less-332			# This _still leaves_ 15 files!
> rm: Unable to remove directory less-332: File exists
> $ rm -r less-332			# Uff, directory is removed now...
> 
> I think, problem is in different versions (NFSv2 vs. NFSv3) - but it
> looks very trivial (?). If I mount NFS exported filesystem (exports
> FreeBSD) on Solaris with option "vers=2" (it says "use NFSv2"),
> problems disappear. But we are using cachefs (cached filesystem) over
> NFS with automounting feature and we have no change to say "cachefs,
> mount NFS filesystem with 'vers=2' option". There isn't any parameter
> for this on Solaris...
> 
> I have tried to use "mountd -2" on FreeBSD server part, but it
> caused Solaris hangs...
> 
> --=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--
> Rudolf Cejka  (cejkar@dcse.fee.vutbr.cz;  http://www.fee.vutbr.cz/~cejkar)
> Technical University of Brno, Faculty of El. Engineering and Comp. Science
> Bozetechova 2, 612 66  Brno, Czech Republic
> 
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I have an open problem on this (pr5890). Look at it and try the
suggested fix. The machine where it is applied runs NFS serving for now
7 month and no problems appeared (clients: Solaris, aix, sco, hpux).

No need to say that this needs a competent blessing....(re-read the BSD
license before trying it :).

RN.

IhM



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