Re: Genera NFS Client Problems

On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 08:00, Richard E. Robbins wrote:
> I'm trying to integrate a LispM with Genera 8.3 into a network that
> includes a Solaris 9 machine as well as various machines running
> relatively recent versions of Linux.  In general, the old client seems
> to have problems working with the various NFS servers out there.  If you
> have used the LispM NFS client with a Solaris 8 or 9 based NFS server or
> perhaps a Redhat 7.2 based server or a SuSE 7.3 based server I'd really
> like to compare notes.  If this is a hopeless task and I should give up,
> let me know too!
> 
> -- Rich

It's not hopeless.  Actually, it works rather well.

Make sure that Solaris and Linux have support for NFS v2 because the
Symbolics doesn't support v3 and certainly not v4.  Make sure that they
support NFS over UDP because I'm not sure whether the Symbolics supports
NFS over TCP.

If you want the Solaris and Linux machines to be able to mount the
Symbolics LMFS you need to specify some additional options to the mount
command to slow the Unix side down.  My entry in /etc/fstab (for Linux)
looks like this:

/nfs/lispm	nfs	noauto,rw,rsize=1136,nosuid,timeo=25,retrans=4,retry=4,intr	0 0

I don't remember why these specific values were selected, but they do
work between my XL1201 and Linux 7.x.

Craig