Re: tlug: status of NFS stability in linux...

[Mike Fabian <mike.fabian@example.com>]

"Scott M. Stone" <sstone@example.com> writes:

> So, WRT the latest 2.2/2.3 kernels, how stable is NFS on linux now?  My
> 2.2.14 system severely blows as both an NFS client and an NFS server, but
> I'd think that *someone* has to have been working on this..?

I also had problems the kernel NFS server in 2.2.x kernels. One weird
problem I encountered is that I can't export the `/' directory, i.e. I
have 

    /          micky(ro,root_squash)

in /etc/exports on the machine `nozomi', but when trying to mount `/'
from micky it doesn't work and a `permission denied' message appears
in /var/log/messages on nozomi. Exporting other directories like 

    /home      micky(ro,root_squash)

and mounting them from micky seems to work OK.

`micky' runs kernel 2.0.36 and userland nfs and the exporting of the
`/' directory of `micky' to nozomi works without problems.

Maybe userland NFS would work better on 2.2.x than kernel NFS?
I couldn't yet find the time to try it. 

-- 
Mike Fabian   <mike.fabian@example.com>   <mike@example.com>

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