At our midsize software company, we have worked around numerous NFS locking issues (and other NFS issues) with networking Macs into our NFS environment. Some of the issues seem to be related to the non-standard NFS packet size used by OSX.
I concur that these issues are more prevalent in 10.3 and earlier than in 10.4 and later. Also, we had more problems connecting OSX NFS to Netapp storage than any other platform. The following may be helpful: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20031028005216891 This page has a Linux patch that is supposed to resolve Linux/OSX NFS problems: http://client.linux-nfs.org/Linux-2.4.x/2.4.23-rc1/ This page links to Linux patches, as well as a patch for the rpc.lockd on the OSX host: http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/readme/82 Hope this helps! :) Joshua Putnam Sr. Unix Administrator InterSystems Corporation 1 Memorial Drive Cambridge, MA 02142 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Revilak Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 10:25 PM Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [BBLISA] NFS lock problem between Mac OS X and netapp (amongothers) > Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 08:27:13 -0700 > From: Cameron Moredock > Subject: [BBLISA] NFS lock problem between Mac OS X and netapp (among > others) > > Sorry to write you on this, but did you by any chance figure out a > solution to the NFS locking issues on Mac OS X? We have a similar > issue with non-BSD style NFS servers. I few months (?) ago, I mentioned having issues with nfs between Mac OS X <-> Linux. This came up in the context of a discussion about iSCSI. At that time, our biggest (NFS) pain point was FC3 being an NFS client to MacOS X 10.3. It wouldn't hold up under even moderate I/O -- forget, say, doing compiles across an nfs mount. These days, we've moved on to CentOS 4 and Mac OS 10.4. That's has been a much more solid combination. But I haven't paid close enough attention to know which OS vendor to thank. Is that the issue you were referring to? Steve _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
