[NCLUG] NFS from HPUX to Linux

Matt Taggart taggart at carmen.fc.hp.com
Mon May 20 16:50:38 MDT 2002


Matthew Wilcox writes...

> On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 04:25:54PM -0600, Matt Taggart wrote:
> > 
> > "JONES,LUKE (HP-Greeley,ex1)" writes...
> > 
> > > I've got a couple of Linux boxes from which I would like to mount a
> > > filesystem exported off an HP-UX server. It's not working.
> > 
> > That has been my experience too. I've seen several people try to use hpux 
> > servers as nfs roots and only got it to work intermittantly. Nobody ever 
> > tracked down the problem they all just started using Linux boxes as nfs 
> > servers instead.
> 
> I thought the problem was with device nodes, not with reliability.

By intermittant I mean sometimes it mounts properly sometimes it doesn't. I 
suspect when it did it worked ok but given that the people using it were 
rebooting a lot it was a PITA and they switched to Linux. Is that what you 
are saying?

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Matt Taggart
taggart at fc.hp.com





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