You may be confusing NFSv3 with v4. I can believe that v4 support is limited, but v3 is supported on aix, Solaris, Linux, et al. Snapdiff incrementals are only supported to a NetApp from AIX and Linux for NFS (v3). ..Paul (excuse my brevity & typos - sent from my phone)
> On Oct 8, 2013, at 1:11 AM, "Grant Street" <gra...@al.com.au> wrote: > > I'm confirming this now ... But it doesn't look good. I'm not talking > will it or won't it work I'm more concerned about technical support. I > had an issue with restoring data to an NFS file system on a mac and was > told that it wasn't supported. That's when I started getting concerned. > > The following does not contain NFS except AIX. eg. I would expect it to > list NFS against linux with ACL Support as "NO" > > http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v6r3/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.itsm.client.doc%2Fc_bac_aclsupt.html > > Grant > > >> On 08/10/13 14:38, Alex Paschal wrote: >> Hello, Grant. I'm certain NFS filesystems are supported on clients >> other than AIX. In fact, the URL below links to the UNIX BAClient >> manual, which contains the sentence: >> "Note: On Solaris and HP-UX, the nfstimeoutoption can fail if the NFS >> mount is hard." >> >> http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v6r4/topic/com.ibm.itsm.client.doc/c_bac_nfshsmounts.html >> >> Perhaps your source confused NFS support with NFS Version 4 ACL support? >> >> http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v6r4/topic/com.ibm.itsm.client.doc/c_bac_nasfs.html >> >> >> >>> On 10/7/2013 4:41 PM, Grant Street wrote: >>> Hello All >>> >>> Just a heads up to something I found out last week. I have been informed >>> that backing up an NFS server from a non AIX client is NOT supported. >>> >>> This could also include using the snapdiff functionality on Netapps. >>> This is being confirmed now. >>> >>> This may be old news to you, in which case , sorry, but this is a big >>> concern for us. I have created an RFE >>> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=40014 >>> >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> Grant >
