Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 Sep 1999 09:54:40 -0400 | From | "Robert K. Nelson" <> | Subject | Re: NFS under 2.2.12 |
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Stephen,
I was not able to get a fully acceptable solution. I work better under the default version of NFS then I was ever able to using the knfsd patches - but that may have been because so many things needed to change at once and I am very limited in taking production machines down. Help is on the way!
1. H.J.Lu has announced the incorporation of a patch which will resolve many of the problems I've been having in using Linux NFS with other systems. http://kernelnotes.org/lnxlists/linux-kernel/lk_9909_04/msg00268.html
2. Alan Cox appears to have agreed that all of the new NFS stuff will go into 2.2.14 - NO MORE NEED FOR NFS PATCHES! I believe that they will also be a part of 2.4, which should be out before the year is out. http://kt.linuxcare.com/kt19990920_35.html#3
3. I have been in touch with Chris Gafton of RedHat who is working on the Lorax (RedHat 6.1) distribution. He states that the newest knfsd stuff will be incorporated. Note that, in violation of longstanding vaporware tradition ( :-) ), he won't give an ETA for Lorax.
4. A new version of autofs is announced which may (or may not) make it into RedHat 6.1. This allows for automatic crossmounts and will make administration much easier. http://www.goop.org/~jeremy/autofs
5. NFS is becoming a priority in the Linux world. The last several kernel archives show extensive threads about this. Not only does this lead to more developers and better testing, but it also makes the volunteers doing most of the work know that their efforts are appreciated and urgently needed.
Bob Nelson
Stephen Walton wrote: > > Hi, > > I saw your note under this subject in the Linux-Kernle archive and > wondered if you had ever resolved your problem. Like you, I downloaded > 2.2.12. I tend to change things as little as possible from the > defaults, so I enabled experimental drivers (since this seems to be > required), NFS and kernel NFS, and a few other things, and built a > driver. I also got the knfsd package from Dave ? site in Australia, and > like you, I can't get the whole thing to work even a little bit. > > For the moment I've fallen back to the user-mode NFS which can be found > at > > ftp://linux.mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de/pub/linux/people/okir > > but it is supposed to be a beta as well. knfsd seems in general to be a > bit of a mess to me, being in transition between its original author and > a new set of developers. > > Anyway, what did you wind up doing? > > -- > Stephen Walton, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, > California State University, Northridge > stephen.walton@csun.edu
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