[comp.sys.sgi] PC-NFS + Iris

rbriber@POLY1.NIST.GOV (12/22/90)

I've recently installed PC-NFS on my PC clone, the PC-NFS daemon (obtained
on a tape from SGI) on our Iris (a 4D80GT running 3.2.0) and started NFS
service on the Iris.  I export a file system and the PC mounts it just fine.
Everything appears ok until you try to edit a file on the
networked disk with a DOS editor.  When the editor goes to write
the file out to the networked drive (I'm using Brief and/or Q-edit) the
write fails and the editor complains that the disk is full.  The disk is 
not full.  When you write a file in DOS you can only write 64K chunks at a 
time, and careful snooping shows that the write fails on the second write call
to DOS.  Consequently everything works fine if the files are less than 
about 64K and only one write is required.  The Sun people speculate that this
is an incompatibility between what they expect NFS on the Iris to be returning
and what is actually being returned.  Has anyone else had this problem?  Were
there any bug fixes to NFS in either 3.2.x, or 3.3.1?  

I'm worried that this will turn into one of those problems where everyone
says it's the other guy's fault.


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