OSX NFS-Server && FreeBSD NFS Client

[Chuck Swiger]

On Jan 7, 2008, at 11:01 PM, Konrad Heuer 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.

-- 
-Chuck