In a message dated: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 11:09:12 EDT
Joshua Baker-LePain said:
>One of the reasons for the move to 2.2.19 is NFSv3 support (finally).
Well, IMO, the only and best reason for moving to 2.2.19 is to get
rid of the ptrace root exploit which exists in all kernels < 2.2.18,
and, AFAIK, all 2.4.x kernels.
NFS v3 support is *there*, however, it's not incredibly stable.
We've been testing it here, and noticed some flakiness, especially if
not all the clients have been upgraded to use NFSv3 support. The
server doesn't easily back down to providing NFSv2 from v3 when the
client only has v2 support.
I don't know all the particulars, but I can find out what our NFS
guys found if anyone wants more specific details.
>You want locking.
Yes, your really do want locking :) Though isn't locking and NFS
kind of an oxymoron?
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Paul
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