[lug] Silly Question

Michael J. Hammel mjhammel at graphics-muse.org
Thu Oct 4 10:54:08 MDT 2001


Thus spoke Scott A. Herod
> What a coincidence.  I have a 6.2 server and a 7.1 client.  This morning
> the client locked up again.  The last line in the message log was an
> nfs error.  Yet another reason to upgrade the server.

NFS is notorious for not providing much debug help on the client side due
to its stateless nature.  All the client knows is the server isn't
responding.  That made it annoying, to say the least.  You should have been
around when we had to work with PCNFS back in the early 90's.  Ick.

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Michael J. Hammel                               The Graphics Muse 
mjhammel at graphics-muse.org                      http://www.graphics-muse.com
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