From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 8 07:01:31 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C1F916A418 for ; Tue, 8 Jan 2008 07:01:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kheuer2@gwdg.de) Received: from gwdu60.gwdg.de (gwdu60.gwdg.de [134.76.8.60]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5A1513C45A for ; Tue, 8 Jan 2008 07:01:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kheuer2@gwdg.de) Received: from gwdu60.gwdg.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gwdu60.gwdg.de (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m0871TLw028607; Tue, 8 Jan 2008 08:01:29 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from kheuer2@gwdg.de) Received: from localhost (kheuer2@localhost) by gwdu60.gwdg.de (8.13.8/8.13.6/Submit) with ESMTP id m0871ScO028604; Tue, 8 Jan 2008 08:01:29 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from kheuer2@gwdg.de) X-Authentication-Warning: gwdu60.gwdg.de: kheuer2 owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 08:01:28 +0100 (CET) From: Konrad Heuer To: Chuck Swiger In-Reply-To: <872A6988-2C89-4AF1-99E6-57B744C799CB@mac.com> Message-ID: <20080108075717.A99137@gwdu60.gwdg.de> References: <20080103073138.G99137@gwdu60.gwdg.de> <872A6988-2C89-4AF1-99E6-57B744C799CB@mac.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OSX NFS-Server && FreeBSD NFS Client X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 07:01:31 -0000 On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Jan 2, 2008, at 10:50 PM, Konrad Heuer wrote: >> I observe a serious problem with NFS exports from a Mac OS X 10.4 server to >> FreeBSD 6.2 NFS clients (itself running on DELL PowerEdge 2850 server >> hardware). >> >> We use the StorNext distributed file system in which FreeBSD cannot >> participate straightly (sorry to say). But OS X can do using the XSAN >> software from Apple, so we integrated the OS X server into the StorNext >> environment. >> >> We want OS X to NFS export the filesystems to FreeBSD clients, which by >> itself for example act as SMB servers using Samba 3.0.x. > > You really don't want to export a filesystem which itself is being mounted > remotely. If you want to provide SMB filesharing for these files, run Samba > on the OS X machine(s) directly. Knowing all the drawbacks including reduced bandwith, there are some important organizational reasons, thus I want to do so. Moreover, Samba ist just one application on the NFS clients, although an important one. Konrad Heuer GWDG, Am Fassberg, 37077 Goettingen, Germany, kheuer2@gwdg.de