OSX NFS-Server && FreeBSD NFS Client

[Konrad Heuer]

On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Chuck Swiger wrote:

> On Jan 2, 2008, at 10:50 PM, Konrad Heuer wrote:
>> I observe a serious problem with NFS exports from a Mac OS X 10.4 server to 
>> FreeBSD 6.2 NFS clients (itself running on DELL PowerEdge 2850 server 
>> hardware).
>> 
>> We use the StorNext distributed file system in which FreeBSD cannot 
>> participate straightly (sorry to say). But OS X can do using the XSAN 
>> software from Apple, so we integrated the OS X server into the StorNext 
>> environment.
>> 
>> We want OS X to NFS export the filesystems to FreeBSD clients, which by 
>> itself for example act as SMB servers using Samba 3.0.x.
>
> 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.

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