<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> <!--Converted with LaTeX2HTML 98.2 beta6 (August 14th, 1998) original version by: Nikos Drakos, CBLU, University of Leeds * revised and updated by: Marcus Hennecke, Ross Moore, Herb Swan * with significant contributions from: Jens Lippmann, Marek Rouchal, Martin Wilck and others --> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Interoperability</TITLE> <META NAME="description" CONTENT="Interoperability"> <META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="nfs"> <META NAME="resource-type" CONTENT="document"> <META NAME="distribution" CONTENT="global"> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <LINK REL="STYLESHEET" HREF="nfs.css"> <LINK REL="next" HREF="node11.html"> <LINK REL="previous" HREF="node2.html"> <LINK REL="up" HREF="nfs.html"> <LINK REL="next" HREF="node6.html"> </HEAD> <BODY > <!--Navigation Panel--> <A NAME="tex2html76" HREF="node6.html"> <IMG WIDTH="37" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="next" SRC="/usr/lib/latex2html/icons.png/next_motif.png"></A> <A NAME="tex2html74" HREF="nfs.html"> <IMG WIDTH="26" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="up" SRC="/usr/lib/latex2html/icons.png/up_motif.png"></A> <A NAME="tex2html68" HREF="node4.html"> <IMG WIDTH="63" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="previous" SRC="/usr/lib/latex2html/icons.png/previous_motif.png"></A> <BR> <B> Next:</B> <A NAME="tex2html77" HREF="node6.html">File Handle</A> <B> Up:</B> <A NAME="tex2html75" HREF="nfs.html">NFS server in Linux:</A> <B> Previous:</B> <A NAME="tex2html69" HREF="node4.html">The Kernel-Space NFS Server</A> <BR> <BR> <!--End of Navigation Panel--> <H1><A NAME="SECTION00030000000000000000"> Interoperability</A> </H1> <P> To deploy Linux as an NFS server in heterogeneous multivendor environment, we have to ensure that the Linux NFS server can interoperate with different NFS client implementations. We used the kernel-space NFS server in Linux kernel 2.2.9 and the user-space NFS server of version 2.2beta37 to test interoperability of the Linux NFS server implementations. <P> <BR><HR> <!--Table of Child-Links--> <A NAME="CHILD_LINKS"></A> <UL> <LI><A NAME="tex2html78" HREF="node6.html">File Handle</A> <LI><A NAME="tex2html79" HREF="node7.html">The Kernel-Space NFS Server</A> <LI><A NAME="tex2html80" HREF="node8.html">File Handle in Kernel-Space NFS Server</A> <LI><A NAME="tex2html81" HREF="node9.html">Other Considerations</A> <LI><A NAME="tex2html82" HREF="node10.html">Results</A> </UL> <!--End of Table of Child-Links--> <BR><HR> <ADDRESS> <I>H.J. Lu</I> <BR><I>1999-08-15</I> </ADDRESS> </BODY> </HTML>