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babak

2004-03-23, 8:35 pm

Hi
How can I tell whether the NFS on a client is NETAPP filer or
something else?
In general if I know the name of the server, how can I tell what is
the type of NFS server?
Is there some RPC command I can send? Or maybe some configuration
files on the client can help? Is there any sort of attributes I can
get from the server?

Thanks

PS: Is there a way I can tell a file system is shared between two
clients without creating a file? I say with no file creation because
NetApp sometimes takes a while before makes a file X (created from
node A) visible to node B.
Dave Hinz

2004-03-23, 9:35 pm

On 23 Mar 2004 17:20:08 -0800, babak <hamadani@uclink.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> Hi
> How can I tell whether the NFS on a client is NETAPP filer or
> something else?
> In general if I know the name of the server, how can I tell what is
> the type of NFS server?


If it's your domain, you should know what you have, right? If it's
admin'd by someone else, ask them. Or, you could try connecting
to it by the normal admin methods for a NetApps and see if it
responds as expected.

> Is there some RPC command I can send? Or maybe some configuration
> files on the client can help? Is there any sort of attributes I can
> get from the server?


Is this something you have to do often, and where hostnames are
changing alot, that you'd need to find this out more than once
per server?

> PS: Is there a way I can tell a file system is shared between two
> clients without creating a file? I say with no file creation because
> NetApp sometimes takes a while before makes a file X (created from
> node A) visible to node B.


Never seen a NetApp behave in the way you describe, can you clarify?

Dave Hinz


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