Subject: Linux NFS server version 1.5
From: [email-masked] (Rick Sladkey)
Date: 11 Apr 1993 22:52:42 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce

A new version of the Linux NFS server is available from:

tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/BETA/NFS/nfs-server-1.5.tar.z

Please note that this is a gzipped file.

Changes from the last public release, nfs-server-1.2:

* the owner of a file can always read or write files regardless of permissions
  (this means that RCS now works over NFS)
* the server maintains serveral open files simultaneously
  (contributed by Orest Zborowski and Patrick Sweeney)
* exports file parsing bugs causing read-only access fixed
  (contributed by Fred van Kempen)
* syslog alternative to log files
  (contibuted by Fred van Kempen)
* requesting a symlink as a mount point works correctly
  (bug reported by Peter MacDonald)
* a new showmount command for querying remote mountd daemons

IMPORTANT: The most common problem reported with the Linux NFS server is
that the mount is successful and ls works but reading or writing a file
hangs the system.  When mounting from non-Linux NFS clients that have
a large default transfer size (e.g. 8k with SunOS) you must reduce both
the read and write transfer sizes to 1k.  This is because Linux IP does
not yet support fragmentation.  Each OS varies as to how this is done
but from SunOS or a BSD-derived system you can use mount options like.

$ mount -o rsize=1024,wsize=1024 linux-host:/remote-dir /local-dir

Bug reports, suggestions and feedback are always welcome.

Rick Sladkey <[email-masked]>

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