You may be confusing NFSv3 with v4. I can believe that v4 support is limited,
but v3 is supported on aix, Solaris, Linux, et al. Snapdiff incrementals are
only supported to a NetApp from AIX and Linux for NFS (v3).
..Paul
(excuse my brevity & typos - sent from my phone)
> On Oct 8, 2013, at 1:11 AM, "Grant Street" <grants AT AL.COM DOT AU> wrote:
>
> I'm confirming this now ... But it doesn't look good. I'm not talking
> will it or won't it work I'm more concerned about technical support. I
> had an issue with restoring data to an NFS file system on a mac and was
> told that it wasn't supported. That's when I started getting concerned.
>
> The following does not contain NFS except AIX. eg. I would expect it to
> list NFS against linux with ACL Support as "NO"
>
> http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v6r3/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.itsm.client.doc%2Fc_bac_aclsupt.html
>
> Grant
>
>
>> On 08/10/13 14:38, Alex Paschal wrote:
>> Hello, Grant. I'm certain NFS filesystems are supported on clients
>> other than AIX. In fact, the URL below links to the UNIX BAClient
>> manual, which contains the sentence:
>> "Note: On Solaris and HP-UX, the nfstimeoutoption can fail if the NFS
>> mount is hard."
>>
>> http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v6r4/topic/com.ibm.itsm.client.doc/c_bac_nfshsmounts.html
>>
>> Perhaps your source confused NFS support with NFS Version 4 ACL support?
>>
>> http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v6r4/topic/com.ibm.itsm.client.doc/c_bac_nasfs.html
>>
>>
>>
>>> On 10/7/2013 4:41 PM, Grant Street wrote:
>>> Hello All
>>>
>>> Just a heads up to something I found out last week. I have been informed
>>> that backing up an NFS server from a non AIX client is NOT supported.
>>>
>>> This could also include using the snapdiff functionality on Netapps.
>>> This is being confirmed now.
>>>
>>> This may be old news to you, in which case , sorry, but this is a big
>>> concern for us. I have created an RFE
>>> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=40014
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Grant
>
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