NFS Locking Issue

[Chris H.]

Quoting Michel Talon <talon at lpthe.jussieu.fr>:

>> 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.

>
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> Michel TALON
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