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- From: howard@sinoda.ultra.COM (Howard Simonson)
- Subject: Re: Some interesting AUFS problems
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.065145.21433@ultra.com>
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- Organization: Ultra Network Technologies
- References: <ROUILJ.92Aug24151134@dl5000.bc.edu> <JAAPJL.92Aug26170100@cmb00.larc.nasa.gov> <1992Aug27.175335.10594@ntg.com>
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 06:51:45 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug27.175335.10594@ntg.com>, dplatt@ntg.com (Dave Platt) writes:
- |>
- |> >Our evidence seems to indicate that AUFS doesn't deal with NFS-mounted
- |> >filesystems. Our workarounds have been to start AUFS on every system
- |> >that a Mac user has files on, or to move all the Mac users' home
- |> >directories to one system, which then runs AUFS. We'd also be interested
- |> >in any fixes for AUFS for NFS.
- |>
- |> My experience was that CAP (pl100) did not work well with NFS-mounted
- |> filesystems when running under SunOS 4.1.1. This was apparently due to
- |> some locking-daemon problems in SunOS - both the CAP machine and the
- |> NFS-service machine would spit out error messages on their console, and
- |> AUFS would not function reliably.
- |>
- |> In SunOS 4.1.2, the locking problems seem to have been fixed. I'm
- |> currently "publishing" several users' home directories to the Mac world
- |> via an AUFS server on one machine, which is NFS-automounting the home
- |> filesystems on another workstation which is not [yet] running AUFS.
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- There is a patch available from Sun (its called something like the "NFS Jumbo
- Patch") which cures the NFS lock daemon problem present in versions earlier
- than 4.1.2, a problem which AUFS seems to hit with great frequency.
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