Re: RHEL4 NFS

["Stephen John Smoogen" <smooge gmail com>]

On 4/27/06, Derek T. Yarnell <derek umiacs umd edu> wrote:
> How stable do you view the NFS implementation is in RHEL4, at U1-U2 time
> frame we had just a basic 2850 with disks in belly serving NFS that
> would randomly just hang or crash.  The same chassis now runs RHEL3
> serving the same data and content with no problems at all. (it was
> re-installed numerous times to make sure we just didn't have a bad
> kernel or sectors or whatever)
>
> I have a hard time justifying trying NFS again on RHEL4 after the
> disaster we had before with it.  Anyone with any thoughts on this?
>


Hard to tell. havent seen this problem with hangs. It is probably
dependant on a lot of matters: (read/write) what kind of NFS was being
done (V4,v3,v2) and the backbone network architecture.

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