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Horms wrote:
>
> On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 02:09:40AM -0500, Raj Dutt wrote:
> > > If you are running NFS on Linux you sould be looking at
> > > http://nfs.sourceforge.net/ . Dave Higgen has been doing a lot
> > > of good things in this area.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Horms
> >
> > Slightly OT but I was wondering what the general consensus is on NFS's
> > current
> > state.
> >
> > Is it stable enough for use in a production environment
> > with several clients mounted in R/W mode doing several
> > megs/sec of Disk I/O?
> >
> > This is obviously also dependent on hardware, but I was curious if some of
> > the
> > more obscure and nasty locking issues with Linux NFS have been resolved.
>
> >From what I understand, which isn't a lot, if you use the patches
> that Dave Higgen and others have been working on then a lot of these
> issues have been resolved.
>
> --
> Horms
In fact, all of the new NFS work has FINALLY made it into the official
tree as of 2.2.18-pre16. You might want to use that (or later pre-18);
saves you the trouble of applying NFS patches!
Dave Higgen
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