Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!uunet!tiamat!jim From: jim@tiamat.fsc.com ( IT Manager) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: Re: SCO problems with NFS (have you noticed any?) Message-ID: <840@tiamat.fsc.com> Date: 28 May 91 16:14:10 GMT Article-I.D.: tiamat.840 References: Distribution: comp Organization: Ahlstrom Filtration - Chattanooga,TN Lines: 34 > > I plan on using our SCO systems as clients to a NFS server. > Among the things we plan on doing are NFS makes, keeping an RCS repository, > and general NFS work. > > Has anyone experienced problems with SCO's NFS implementation? > > -Jim. I suppose it depends on the versions of your software, and what OS the server machines will be running. We ran into trouble trying to use RCS on files which resided on an HP-UX 7.0 filesystem and were NFS mounted to an SCO Unix machine. On the SCO machine, RCS would fail when doing checkouts because it could not build the filename to use in the $SOurce$ keyword. A quick look at the code showed that the problem may be linked to RCS trying to use it's own directory reading routines, which were not prepared to deal with foreign OS directories via NFS. The same problem happened using HP RCS binaries on files from the SCO machine NFS mounted to the HP. If we mounted HP-HP, or SCO-SCO, there was no such trouble. I don't think our RCS is the latest version, and I haven't put any significant work into resolving the problem, so there may be an easy solution, or the trouble may have gone away already. Make seems to work OK, but you'll need to make sure you're doing some kind of clock synchronization across your net, or you may get strange results. Good luck, and please let us know how it worked out. ------------- James B. O'Connor jim@tiamat.fsc.com Ahlstrom Filtration, Inc. 615/821-4022 x. 651