Linux client on Solaris 7 NFS server
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Quoted 9 lines · Wade Hampton
I have a Fedora Core 1.0 client connecting to a Solaris X86 Version 7 NFS server. The Solaris server has locked up several times since I started accessing it from Linux (this is the only change to the Solaris system's environment). I was wondering if this was an NFS problem on Solaris 7 or could be a hardware problem with the NIC.
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If the Solaris Server is locking up, this is a problem with Solaris. It might be somehow triggered by Linux, but that is absolutely no excuse for a server problem. The server should just stay up.
Sun has some excellent resources available for making certain your system is up-to-date. Go over sun.com, and start with the support link. They have this patch manager tool which will examine your system, figure out what patches it needs, and apply them. I don't recall if you need a support contract to use it or not.
One of the other nice tools they have is their search of their bugs database system. Here's one which may be related:
#57406: "NFS Server May Panic Upon Receipt of Certain Invalid Client Requests" Oct 27, 2003.
That's a bad sign. They do list a number of patches for the issue.
"Sensitive" should refer to performance. My experience is that Linux NFS clients exhibit horrible performance issues with Sun servers in standard, out-of-the-box configurations. That's in comparison to using pure Sun or pure Linux Server/Client combinations.
-dwight-
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