[plug] NFS Questions

[Nick Bannon]

On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 04:08:31PM +0800, Mark Baker wrote:
> I am looking into a problem where a Redhat 6.1 box is acting as a NFS
> server for a SGI client.  Occassionally a 'df' on the SGI box will show
> that it cannot access one of the Linux mounts.  However, if I do a 'ls'
> on the offending Linux exported directory, on the Linux box, the SGI box
> can see it again.

Cannot access? as in requests time out? or what? Also - just a thought -
is the exported directory on the Linux server automounted?

> I assume that both machines are running NFS V2. What is the status of NFS V3?

Available, as a patch. It won't be in 2.2.15 - you'll probably have to
wait for 2.2.16 or 2.4.

http://nfs.sourceforge.net/

Nick.

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