Subject: [netatalk-admins] NFS + Netatalk

From: "Richard L. Goerwitz III" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 10:19:27 -0400 (EDT)

Last year I tested out Xinet products, as well as Netatalk.  Xinet
had its problems (it would periodically stop working for no apparent
reason).  Netatalk ended up better in most respects.  One thing we
encountered, though, was a problem with periodic crashes:

  1) machine: SuperSparc w/ Solaris 2.5.1
  2) Netatalk 1.4 last fall's beta release (1.4.2?)
  3) filesystems: mixed local and NFS-mounted

The machine would lock up about once a week and have to be rebooted.
We tried applying the patch that tested for EINTR under Solaris for
a few system calls.  But the crashes still occurred.

Eventually we abandoned Netatalk - although we thought it looked like
a generally great product.

Can anyone shed light on what was going on?

Richard Goerwitz
Brown University