[rescue] Re: OT Linux

David Passmore rescue at sunhelp.org
Mon Dec 24 12:15:22 CST 2001


On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 01:07:27PM -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:

>   NFS under Linux and SunOS4 is pretty painful, but I've had good
> results with it on a bunch of other platforms.  The NFS implementation
> as a whole under Linux is just generally crappy, and SunOS4's
> rpc.mountd is chock full o' bugs.  I've never had NFS under NetBSD
> even so much as burp, and I use it every day.

FYI, the mount options I use mounting from Solaris to Linux (and the only
ones that seem to work properly) are:

rsize=32768,wsize=32768,tcp

If you don't use tcp, it will freeze up on large transfers, period.

This is with Solaris 8 and a 2.4.16 kernel.

David



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