We have heard reports that Solaris 2.6 NFS clients drop mounts of NetApp and other NFS servers but I have not been able to get a detailed explanation of the problem. Although it is apparently a Solaris 2.6 bug, I can't seem to find information about it from Sun and I thought that some other NetApp user might be familiar with the problem. We are planning a Solaris upgrade in the next few weeks and I'd like to feel confident that we aren't going to run into problems.
Can someone explain what the specific bug is and whether there is a definate work-around or patch available? Is anyone successfully using Solaris 2.6 clients with a NetApp and if so are you using any special settings on either the client and/or the server?
Thanks.
Mike Mueller
On Fri, 23 Jan 1998, Mike Mueller wrote:
Is anyone successfully using Solaris 2.6 clients with a NetApp and if so are you using any special settings on either the client and/or the server?
Yes and no, respectively.
My home directory lives on a netapp running 4.2a; I normally work on a Solaris 2.6 system with reasonably current recommended patches. Haven't noticed any problems over the past several weeks since that system went to 2.6, and I'm logged in a lot. No one else has complained either (and my users aren't a shy lot). I'm using the usual /home automounter map on the 2.6 system, and it looks like we have over 200 home directories mounted from the netapp on that system.
Now I did recently have an odd mounting permissions problem with a new 2.6 system; the netapp stubbornly refused to allow that system to mount /home for a few hours. I'm not sure what happened there -- snoop didn't shed any light on it, and there were no messages on the netapp side -- and it started working again after a while.
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Mike Mueller