>
> Steve,
>
> Can I upgrade from the SGI web site? I know I can download the 6.5.13 files
> (900 or so MB), but, will this work OK? I am already in the maintaince
> stream, so I won't have that damn "stream switch" problem.
> <rant>
> Now if I could only get some IRIX media from SGI without paying $600.00! No
> offense to you guys, or SGI, as they have done a _lot_ for the Linux
> community, but $600? Come on!
> </rant>
> Anyway, thanks for the reply; I'll certainly take your advice into
> consideration?
>
> BTW - Are there any major disadvantages to using NFS v2?
Here's some of the the improvements to NFS V3:
- 64 bit file offsets
- safe asynchronous writes
- readdirplus for faster directory lookups
- larger default read/write sizes
Tad
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve Lord" <lord@xxxxxxx>
> To: "Sean Elble" <s_elble@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 10:02 AM
> Subject: Re: IRIX 6.5.6m/XFS CVS: Any problems?
>
>
> > > 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
> >
>
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