Re: Linux release of nfs-utils version 1.0.1

[James Pearson <james-p@moving-picture.com>]

I notice that the NFS HOW-TO at LDP has now been updated - any chance
the version at http://nfs.sourceforge.net/nfs-howto be updated as well?

James Pearson

Tom McNeal wrote:
> 
> Hi -
> 
> The latest release of the nfs utils package has just been posted
> on https://sourceforge.net/projects/nfs/
> 
> The last version of the package was posted last September, so there
> are quite a few fixes in it.  The one which you may notice right
> away is that synchronous IO is now a default export characteristic,
> falling in line with all other vendors of NFS.  In order to ease
> the transition, a warning will be posted if you do not specify either
> "sync" or "async" in the export list.  This removes a possible
> source of undetected data corruption, as detailed in the NFS howtos.
> 
> Speaking of the howtos, the latest versions of them have been sent
> to the LDP, so they should be posted sometime next week.
> 
> Finally, if you are interested, I have published the client based
> test package I used for testing the utils, which contains a GUI
> interface, and includes Connectathon, FSX, Bonnie++, and IOzone,
> among other things.  The package was originally developed by
> Bruce Blinn and Adrian Drzewiecki at the Mission Critical Linux
> West Coast Office.  I received permission from the owners of the
> assets of MCLX to post the package, after removing all parts
> related to the MCLX cluster software.  You can find it at
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/nfstestmatrix
> 
> One final note - I was not the only tester; Engineers at Red Hat
> and IBM, among others, were involved in the testing, so my Intel
> based UP machines were not the only ones exercising it.
> 
> Regards -
> 
> Tom McNeal
> 
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