Re: NFS corruption revisited

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 15 Sep 1999 16:38:35 +0100 (BST)

> Yes, but it is this padding that causes the problems (Sun's nfsd ignores
> the packet-size field and supposes (packet-length - header) to be the real
> size).

Only on old unpatched Solaris. Sun fixed their server 2 years ago.

> > How close are AIX and Solaris nfsd I wonder
>
> They *should* be a re-compile apart, approximately (+/- a few
> optimisations, maybe.)

So +/- all the important bug fixes for 2 years is plausible ?

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