IRIX NFS server and Linux NFS client

IRIX NFS server and Linux NFS client

[Steffen Persvold]

Hi all,

Is there any reason why my Linux NFS client (kernel 2.4.18
nfs-utils-0.3.1-13.7.2.1 from RedHat 7.2) is not able to mount a directory
exported from an IRIX server in NFSv3 (not sure which version of IRIX
yet, if this is important I will find out). NFSv2 works fine, but if I
try to force NFSv3 I get "Connection refused".

I'll appreciate any help.

Regards,
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Re: IRIX NFS server and Linux NFS client

[Steffen Persvold]

On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Steffen Persvold wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Is there any reason why my Linux NFS client (kernel 2.4.18
> nfs-utils-0.3.1-13.7.2.1 from RedHat 7.2) is not able to mount a directory
> exported from an IRIX server in NFSv3 (not sure which version of IRIX
> yet, if this is important I will find out). NFSv2 works fine, but if I
> try to force NFSv3 I get "Connection refused".
>
> I'll appreciate any help.
>

I forgot to mention that NFSv3 works when an IRIX client mounts the same
directory (i.e the directory shows up as "nfs" and not "nfs2" in the mount
table on the IRIX client).

Could it be that IRIX only supports NFSv3 with TCP and not UDP (I didn't
try TCP mounting on the Linux client) ?

Thanks,
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Re: IRIX NFS server and Linux NFS client

[Trond Myklebust]

>>>>> " " == Steffen Persvold <sp@scali.com> writes:

     > I forgot to mention that NFSv3 works when an IRIX client mounts
     > the same directory (i.e the directory shows up as "nfs" and not
     > "nfs2" in the mount table on the IRIX client).

     > Could it be that IRIX only supports NFSv3 with TCP and not UDP
     > (I didn't try TCP mounting on the Linux client) ?

Have you applied

  http://www.fys.uio.no/~trondmy/src/2.4.18/linux-2.4.18-seekdir.dif

in order to work around the glibc-2.x readdir bugs?

Cheers,
  Trond

Re: IRIX NFS server and Linux NFS client

[Thomas Duffy]

On Thu, 11 Apr 2002 03:23:15 -0700, Steffen Persvold wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Steffen Persvold wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Is there any reason why my Linux NFS client (kernel 2.4.18
>> nfs-utils-0.3.1-13.7.2.1 from RedHat 7.2) is not able to mount a
>> directory exported from an IRIX server in NFSv3 (not sure which version
>> of IRIX yet, if this is important I will find out). NFSv2 works fine,
>> but if I try to force NFSv3 I get "Connection refused".

What version of IRIX are you using?

There was a fix put into IRIX in the 6.5.12/13 timeframe that made it
more compatible with Linux.  Make sure you are updated to at least that
release.

-tduffy

Re: IRIX NFS server and Linux NFS client

[Steffen Persvold]

On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Thomas Duffy wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Apr 2002 03:23:15 -0700, Steffen Persvold wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Steffen Persvold wrote:
> >
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> Is there any reason why my Linux NFS client (kernel 2.4.18
> >> nfs-utils-0.3.1-13.7.2.1 from RedHat 7.2) is not able to mount a
> >> directory exported from an IRIX server in NFSv3 (not sure which version
> >> of IRIX yet, if this is important I will find out). NFSv2 works fine,
> >> but if I try to force NFSv3 I get "Connection refused".
>
> What version of IRIX are you using?
>
> There was a fix put into IRIX in the 6.5.12/13 timeframe that made it
> more compatible with Linux.  Make sure you are updated to at least that
> release.
>

Hmm It's IRIX 6.4 and unfortunately the server can''t be upgraded. Is
there a ChangeLog somewhere (for IRIX) which describes the changes you
mention a bit more in detail ? I looked at the SGI homepage, but I didn't
seem to find
it.

Thanks,
 --
  Steffen Persvold   | Scalable Linux Systems |   Try out the world's best
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Re: IRIX NFS server and Linux NFS client

[Thomas Duffy]

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On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 20:22, Steffen Persvold wrote:

> Hmm It's IRIX 6.4 and unfortunately the server can''t be upgraded. Is
> there a ChangeLog somewhere (for IRIX) which describes the changes you
> mention a bit more in detail ? I looked at the SGI homepage, but I didn't
> seem to find
> it.

AHHH.  IRIX 6.4...yuck.  All bets are off for that one.  IRIX 6.3 and
6.4 were probably the worst releases ever (said in comic guy voice :). 
6.3 was a one-off to support the o2 and 6.4 was a one-off to support the
Origin 2xxx series.  I would *highly* recommend upgrading to 6.5.x.

For one, NFS v3 was not very mature in the 6.4 days.  I would stick to
NFS v2 if you cannot upgrade the OS.  But *please* upgrade the OS :)

-tduffy

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