[ale] NFS via TCP

[Jeff Layton]

Chris Ricker wrote:

> On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Jeff Layton wrote:
>
> > Chris Ricker wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Chris Fowler wrote:
> > >
> > > > I get an error message that it is not supported.  NFSv3 supports NFS
> > > > over TCP.  My BSD box serves it up over TCP.
> > >
> > > NFSv3 can be over TCP or UDP, but the Linux v3 client has only very recently
> > > gotten support for TCP NFSv3. You'll have to upgrade your kernel (and then
> > > expect it to still be flaky)
> >
> > We've been using NFSv3 over TCP for quite some time using the
> > kernel patches have had no trouble what so ever. This is a beowulf
> > running HPC applications over NFS. Lots of IO traffic at different
> > times.
>
> Are you just linux <-> linux, or cross-platform? I've had so much screwiness
> with linux client -> NetBSD server that I've given up on TCP for the time
> being....

linux <-> linux. I've used some Sun -> linux but I didn't set it up
(I think it was UDP only).

You might try pinging the NFS mailing list. I know they try out a
bunch of stuff during the Connectathon. May be someone has
tried NetBDS -> linux.

Good Luck!

Jeff


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> later,
> chris
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