Rob Windsor windsor@adc.com writes [...]
It's not an issue with "supporting unix", it's an issue of your unix "supporting NFS".
In an ideal world, that would be true.
But in practice we know that all sorts of interworkability problems can arise, either in NFS itself (like the false optimisations based on the contents of the NFS file handles) or other aspects of the filing system (like the problems that GNU utilities have with directory link counts not taking account of .snapshot, or the problems many Unixes have with files in snapshots having the same inode numbers as those in the active filing system).
This sort of thing isn't unique to NetApp, of course: problems with vendor A's NFS server implementation not working properly with vendor B's NFS client implementation come up fairly often. Follow comp.protocols.nfs for a bit...
Chris Thompson University of Cambridge Computing Service, Email: cet1@ucs.cam.ac.uk New Museums Site, Cambridge CB2 3QG, Phone: +44 1223 334715 United Kingdom.