OK, thanks for the information. Do you know if the patch Utz sent me will
fix any of those problems? Thanks again!
-Sean
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tad Dolphay" <tbd@xxxxxxx>
To: <S_Elble@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Utz Lehmann" <ulehmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 8:39 AM
Subject: Re: IRIX 6.5.6m/XFS CVS: Any problems?
> >
> > Utz,
> >
> > Thanks for the information; do you know if this patch needs to be
applied
> > for NFS v3 to work from IRIX to Linux? It looks really easy to apply
>
> For the most part NFS V3 will still work using a pre 6.5.13 IRIX client
> and 2.4 linux server. The problem is that sometimes when doing a pwd on a
> NFS mounted directory you won't see the entire path name.
>
> Tad
> > manually if it doesn't apply automatically . . . I've been wrong before
> > though. :-) Thanks again!
> >
> > -Sean
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Utz Lehmann" <ulehmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: "Steve Lord" <lord@xxxxxxx>
> > Cc: "Sean Elble" <s_elble@xxxxxxxxx>; <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 10:31 AM
> > Subject: Re: IRIX 6.5.6m/XFS CVS: Any problems?
> >
> >
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > Steve Lord [lord@xxxxxxx] wrote:
> > > > > 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
> > >
> > > I had grabed a small patch for the linux nfs server on lkml. It's set
the
> > > file handle size on the linux nfs server to a value (older) IRIX
Versions
> > > (and HP-UX 10.20) can understand. I have used this patch till 2.4.9.
Maybe
> > > it works with 2.4.10 too.
> > > It works for me, but use it at your own risk.
> > >
> > > Or use NFS v2.
> > >
> > >
> > > utz
> > >
> >
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