mikec@wam.umd.edu (Michael D. Callaghan) (05/28/91)
Does anyone have direct experience using A/UX as an NFS client? I'd like to hear about the problems encountered. Thanks, MikeC -- --------------------------------------------------------- Michael D. Callaghan, MDC Designs, University of Maryland --------------------------------------------------------- - Celibacy is a curable condition -
tony@tui.marcam.dsir.govt.nz (Tony Cooper) (05/28/91)
|> Does anyone have direct experience using A/UX as an NFS client? I'd like |> to hear about the problems encountered. I mount two SunOS4.1 disks on my A/UX system and I have never had any problems whatsoever. They are fast, too, and so trouble free that I think they are my own disks. I have even had /shlib on them with no problems although I think that Apple recommend that this not be done. In fact, I have had so little trouble with mounted disks that even when people said that you could not compile and run code on them due to a bug, I could. I even built X11R4 on a mounted disk. They only times I have problems is when the Sun disks are down whereupon A/UX hangs for various operations such as df and getwd. (Other UNIXs, but not all, do this hanging too). Don't forget that there is a nfs patch in aux.support.apple.com that is more recent than A/UX 2.0.1. It fixes the compiling problem that some people had. |> - Celibacy is a curable condition - A good night in bed cures it.
liam@cs.qmw.ac.uk (William Roberts;) (05/29/91)
|> Does anyone have direct experience using A/UX as an NFS client? I'd like |> to hear about the problems encountered. Where have you been these last few years? 1. A/UX has always had a complete, standard NFS implementation which allows the A/UX machine to be both client and server. 2. It works. At QMW we have always used A/UX with very, very heavy reliance on NFS and it hasn't let us down: by heavy reliance I mean that no personal files are stored on the local disk of our 100+ student A/UX systems, and that everyone's home directory is on some NFS fileserver. We run A/UX on machines with 40 Meg disks of which 20 Meg is given over to a Mac partition: this leaves only room for the bare minimum of A/UX stuff on the local disk, with everything else mounted from NFS fileservers. 3. Recent problems with NFS, showing up mostly with compilations on remote servers, were due to generic failings in the NFS standard source code as licenced from Sun. The revised A/UX NFS driver fixes this. These days NFS is just part of the furniture for any and every UNIX box: it's only when people don't offer it that you should begin to worry. -- William Roberts Internet: liam@dcs.qmw.ac.uk Queen Mary & Westfield College UUCP: liam@qmw-dcs.UUCP Mile End Road AppleLink: UK0087 LONDON, E1 4NS, UK Tel: +44 71-975 5234 (Fax: +44 81-980 6533)