Re: IRIX NFS server and Linux NFS client

[Steffen Persvold]

On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Thomas Duffy wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Apr 2002 03:23:15 -0700, Steffen Persvold wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Steffen Persvold wrote:
> >
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> Is there any reason why my Linux NFS client (kernel 2.4.18
> >> nfs-utils-0.3.1-13.7.2.1 from RedHat 7.2) is not able to mount a
> >> directory exported from an IRIX server in NFSv3 (not sure which version
> >> of IRIX yet, if this is important I will find out). NFSv2 works fine,
> >> but if I try to force NFSv3 I get "Connection refused".
>
> What version of IRIX are you using?
>
> There was a fix put into IRIX in the 6.5.12/13 timeframe that made it
> more compatible with Linux.  Make sure you are updated to at least that
> release.
>

Hmm It's IRIX 6.4 and unfortunately the server can''t be upgraded. Is
there a ChangeLog somewhere (for IRIX) which describes the changes you
mention a bit more in detail ? I looked at the SGI homepage, but I didn't
seem to find
it.

Thanks,
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