Mike,

This is very interesting, particularly considering that on regular LAN connections NetApp filers blow away Sun boxes (on SpecSFS anyway).

I half expect a "filers can't deal with being asked to run that slow" response from NetApp.... :o)

Seriously though, OnTap does not use an NFS daemon. I believe NFS is handled in a state-machine fashion within the Ontap RTOS kernel. It's possible that what your seeing is the result of a timing condition that doesn't show up on faster links. Are you running NFS in sync or async mode on the client?

regards,

Alan McLachlan Senior Systems Engineer Storage Management Solutions ASI Solutions www.asi.com.au Ph +61 2 6230 1566 Fax +61 2 6230 5343 Mobile +61 428 655644 e-mail amclachlan@asi.com.au

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