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Currently, the 2.2 serious Linux kernel only supports UDP for
NFS. Since UDP is supported by all NFS implementations, it shouldn't
be a real issue to use Linux as an NFS server in a heterogeneous
environment.

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The NFS server in the Linux kernel doesn't accept requests from
insecure port by default. But some NFS client implementations require
to use the insecure ports for NFS. We can disable it in /etc/exports
on the host by host basis.

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During the tests, we discovered that some NFS client implementations
set the size bit for symlink and mkdir. As the result, we changed
the Linux NFS server to ignore the size bit for symlink and mkdir.

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We also noticed that Solaris NFS automount client made the RPC call
to the NULL procedure to verify if the NFS server is available before
mounting the exported file system. We changed the Linux NFS server
to allow requests to the NFS server NULL procedure from any hosts.

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<I>H.J. Lu</I>
<BR><I>1999-08-15</I>
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