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From: dana@tread.sgi.com (Dana Treadwell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: SGI/Sun mountd errors (was Re: Power Series Iris as NFS file server?)
Keywords: NFS
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Date: 5 Jun 90 23:37:27 GMT
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Reply-To: dana@tread.UUCP (Dana Treadwell)
Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc., Mtn. View, CA
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>> There is a problem with Sun's backoff algorithm in 4.1 mountd...
>> The result is that SunOS4.1 clients cannot NFS mount SGI filesystems.
> Under what conditions does this occur?  I mount filesystems from various
> SGI hosts running 3.2 and 3.2.1 on my SparcStation running 4.1 all the
> time.  Haven't noticed any problems yet.

Sun's 4.1 version of automount doesn't use the same backoff algorithm as 
their 4.1 mountd. Automount uses version 1 of the mountd protocol unless 
the "posix" mount option appears in the command telling it to use version 2.

So you can work around this problem by automounting SGI filesystems.

  Dana Treadwell
  dana@sgi.com