On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, File Server Admin wrote: > does anyone know how to solve the problem with NFS incompatibility > between Solaris (2.5) client and Linux (Hamm) NFS server? > Here Linux box exports /home and /var/spool/mail. > Problems are: > - mailx and elm hang, > - tar and make demonstrate indeterministic behaviour... > Simple programs like cp work OK. > > Some people say that the problem is that Linux does not have lockd/statd > (and Solaris' lockd says "cannot find inet addr for...<linux box name>"), > but I did not notice at Linux box any requests from Solaris for locking > and anything unusual. Anyway, does anyone know how to solve the problem?
My experience is that the Linux NFS server is broken when working with Solaris NFS clients. We can get read only mounts to work reliably but not read-write. The new 2.2 kernel does have some support for lockd and the nfs code itself has been changed substantially. My impression is that it is not stable. We recently retired our Debian server for a Solaris server for this reason alone. This is a serious short coming in Linux. -- Jean Pierre
