Subject: Re: Netatalk and NFS
From: Matthew Keller (kellermg@potsdam.edu)
Date: Mon Jan 08 2001 - 11:17:09 EST
Tim Carlson wrote:
> FYI, I have encountered no problems with pre-asun2.1.4-39_test on Solaris
> 7 and grabbing shares that are NFSed from another Solaris box. Of course
> this is all NFSv3 which you probably aren't using on your Linux boxes.
Yes, NFSv3 is way nice, and v3 support in Linux 2.2 kernel sucks. v3 in
2.4.0 kernel is alledgedly pretty cool, but I haven't played with it
yet... Maybe this afternoon...
> As for the time syncing I would agree that it is important to keep time
> current among machines that are NFSing things around. Recent
> versions of GNU "make" really complain if the time is different. If you
> aren't using ntp or some such utility, you should be :)
*nod* On an hourly CRON task, IMHO.
--Matthew Keller WebMaster, Interim Network Manager & Host Systems Analyst Computing & Technology Services Information Services Division State University of New York at Potsdam Website: http://mattwork.potsdam.edu/ PGP: http://mattwork.potsdam.edu/crypto/
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