OSX NFS-Server && FreeBSD NFS Client

[Chuck Swiger]

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.

-- 
-Chuck