Re: IRIX 6.5.6m/XFS CVS: Any problems?

[Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>]

> Hello,
> 
> I have a Silicon Graphics Indigo2 here with IRIX
> 6.5.6m installed (love it, BTW), and a Linux server
> that is about to have the latest CVS version of the
> XFS kernel installed, along with the kernel-level NFS
> server.
> 
> Are there any known problems, or catches, using NFS on
> IRIX with a Linux 2.4.10 server? I would like to use
> NFS3, if possible, but I would appreciate any comments
> any users may have. Thanks, in advance!
> 

You may want to upgrade to the latest Irix release, there were some
problems with NFS V3 between Linux and Irix. The Irix implementation
expected the NFS file handles to be of a specific size, and Linux used
a different size. I think this is fixed in 6.5.13. This only affected
V3 NFS I think.

Steve