Is there a list of Unix operating systems with wich NetApp Filer will work. Like: Unix, Sun-Solaris... What about Novell Netware or AIX or VMS ?
Uros Lampret
On Wed, 07 Jun 2000 11:32:49 +0200, "Uros Lampret" wrote:
Is there a list of Unix operating systems with wich NetApp Filer will work. Like: Unix, Sun-Solaris... What about Novell Netware or AIX or VMS ?
Look for "nfs", if your particular flavor of unix supports NFS, then the Filer will work with it. On that note, I can't think of a flavor of unix since 1990 that doesn't do NFS.
It's not an issue with "supporting unix", it's an issue of your unix "supporting NFS".
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Look for "nfs", if your particular flavor of unix supports NFS, then the Filer will work with it. On that note, I can't think of a flavor of unix since 1990 that doesn't do NFS.
MAI Basic 4's Unix didn't support TCP/IP, didn't have a compiler, didn't do NFS, but it was Unix. This was YEARS ago, they might have changed since then.
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob Windsor" windsor@adc.com To: "Uros Lampret" uros.lampret@ourspace.si Cc: toasters@mathworks.com Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 4:37 AM Subject: Re: List of Unix operating systems
On Wed, 07 Jun 2000 11:32:49 +0200, "Uros Lampret" wrote:
Is there a list of Unix operating systems with wich NetApp Filer will work. Like: Unix, Sun-Solaris... What about Novell Netware or AIX or VMS ?
Look for "nfs", if your particular flavor of unix supports NFS, then the Filer will work with it. On that note, I can't think of a flavor of unix since 1990 that doesn't do NFS.
There was a version of IRIX recently that didn't include NFS in the base package.
You'd also prefer a UNIX that supports NFS v3, but v2 is fine.
Bruce
On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Bruce Sterling Woodcock wrote:
There was a version of IRIX recently that didn't include NFS in the base package.
AFAIK, SGI never shipped NFS with its base OS; you always had to purchase it as an unbundled product. Same with nroff; you needed a development kit to get that. I guess they wanted to make it perfectly clear they will pass the licensing fees directly onto their customers.
Pretty stoopid, IMHO.
Until next time...
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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...
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