Re: 2.6.0 NFS-server low to 0 performance

[Guennadi Liakhovetski]

On Sat, 10 Jan 2004, Trond Myklebust wrote:

> PЕ lau , 10/01/2004 klokka 15:04, skreiv Guennadi Liakhovetski:
> > Not change - keep (from 2.4). You see, the problem might be - somebody
> > updates the NFS-server from 2.4 to 2.6 and then suddenly some clients fail
> > to work with it. Seems a non-obvious fact, that after upgrading the server
> > clients' configuration might have to be changed. At the very least this
> > must be documented in Kconfig.
>
> Non-obvious????? You have to change modutils, you have to upgrade
> nfs-utils, glibc, gcc... and that's only the beginning of the list.
>
> 2.6.x is a new kernel it differs from 2.4.x, which again differs from
> 2.2.x, ... Get over it! There are workarounds for your problem, so use
> them.

Please, calm down:-)), I am not fighting, I am just thinking aloud, I have
no intention whatsoever to attack your aor anybody else's work / ideas /
decisions, etc.

The only my doubt was - yes, you upgrade the __server__, so, you look in
Changes, upgrade all necessary stuff, or just upgrade blindly (as does
happen sometimes, I believe) a distribution - and the server works, fine.
What I find non-obvious, is that on updating the server you have to
re-configure __clients__, see? Just think about a network somewhere in a
uni / company / whatever. Sysadmins update the server, and then
NFS-clients suddenly cannot use NFS any more...

Thanks
Guennadi
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Guennadi Liakhovetski


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