2.1.125 + knfsd-980930 = happy face

Jonathan Corbet (corbet@eklektix.com)
Fri, 09 Oct 1998 14:23:47 -0500

The subject says it all. Even pounding on the nfs server with multiple
Linux and Solaris hosts simultaneously, I can't make it flake. This
subsystem has come a *long* way in the last few weeks. Kudos to H.J.,
Bill, Allen, and others who have worked on this. It seems to me about time
that the knfsd patches went into the kernel.

One remaining glitch has to do with Solaris clients. Solaris seems to
cache file handles around for a long time, even over reboots. When knfs
sees one of these file handles (which had been handed out by the unfs
implementation) it logs a message like:

Oct 9 13:06:10 lucy kernel: nfsd: unauthenticated request from (8075500f:634)

It then seems to drop the request, leaving the Solaris client to hang. It
seems like it should return a "stale NFS handle" error in this case.

Ah yes...and, of course, TCP mounts don't work...but you knew that.

jon

Jonathan Corbet, Eklektix, Inc.
corbet@eklektix.com

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