> > 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.
Yup... All SunOS-releases have official patches, except for one, which
only has an experimental patch (we had to search quite some time to
find that patch, I can assure you...)
> > > 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 ?
Doesn't sound too improbable, actually.
I STILL think that a compile-time, or better yet, mount-time option for
the Linux NFS-client where padding could be disabled would be something
REALLY nice. At least we here at the University of Umea would much prefer
a few percent slower connection prior to a buggy one...
Of course, if NFS v3 makes it into the kernel anytime soon, we won't have
that problem. But I have yet to see NFS v3 for the v2.3.x kernels, and as
there's a feature-freeze, I hope that NFS v3 is considered a bug-fix, not
a feature...
/David
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