Are there any known bugs in the AIX NFS server or client that would lead to
data corruption ?
Today I was installing Oracle from an NFS mounted CDROM and it failed
while performing a link step (Oracle Reports 2.0, CDE 1 Prod 3) complaining
that a library (libsrwii.a) was not in XCOFF format. I copied the file via NFS
from the CDROM into a temporary directory and then copied the file from the
CDROM onto the machine the CDROM is attached to and transferred it to the
machine I was working on using ftp (in binary mode!). I ran cmp on both
copies of the file and it reported a difference about 680K into the file.
The problem may be data dependent since I performed the test on another
(larger) file and there were no problems, and I have also installed software
from an NFS mounted CDROM in the past with no problems.
Anyone seen this before ?
Thanks,
Steve
