OSX NFS-Server && FreeBSD NFS Client

[Konrad Heuer]

On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, Chuck Swiger wrote:

>>> You really don't want to export a filesystem which itself is being mounted 
>>> remotely.  If you want to provide SMB filesharing for these files, run 
>>> Samba on the OS X machine(s) directly.
>> 
>> Knowing all the drawbacks including reduced bandwith, there are some 
>> important organizational reasons, thus I want to do so. Moreover, Samba ist 
>> just one application on the NFS clients, although an important one.
>
> While I certainly wish you the best of luck, previous experience suggests 
> that the drawbacks to this approach include not functioning properly.
>
> NFS is a stateless protocol, except insofar as rpc.lockd in theory provides 
> lockf/flock style locking over the network-- yet Samba/CIFS wants to allow 
> extensive use of client side opportunistic locking, which means that Samba 
> really, really wants to run off of a local filesystem.

Yes, I agree, locking is a serious problem. The whole thing runs with 
Linux NFS servers for a couple of month now (though I want to migrate to 
OSX NFS servers), and I introduced "fake oplocks = yes" in smb.conf some 
month ago (which obviously improved stability) and did also some 
experimenting with the -L-option of mount_nfs.

Thank you very much for reply!

Best regards

Konrad Heuer
GWDG, Am Fassberg, 37077 Goettingen, Germany, kheuer2 at gwdg.de