[lug] Silly Question

[Scott A. Herod]

"Michael J. Hammel" wrote:
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> I use this quite a bit, though it doesn't work well between RH 6.2 and Red
> Hat 7.1 boxes.  As far as I can tell, the problem is that a RH 6.2 server
> gets confused by the 7.1 requests and causes the 7.1 clients to lock up.
> NFS between 7.1 boxes works fine.  NFS was notorious for being problematic
> in earlier distributions though it worked fine for my old RH6.2 network.
> I've heard that with the 2.4 kernels and distributions the problems are
> fewer.  I need to finish upgrading all my boxes to 7.1 from 6.2 to verify
> that.

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.

Scott