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Re: Problems with NetCDF on Solaris

> Organization: NOAA/PMEL
> Keywords: 199404260057.AA08227

Steve,

> The process of creating you a tar file for you revealed what appears to be
> the bigger part of the solution.  Just to be sure that you would be able to
> reproduce the error I installed the tar file in a fresh directory - this one
> **NOT** NFS mounted.  I found that I could not get the test script to fail.
>  The same script fails with incorrect netCDF reads about 3 times out of 4
> when run over nfs.
> 
> So now it becomes a "system" problem rather than a netCDF problem.  The cpu
> in the tests is a Solaris machine but the remote disk is exported from OSF.
>  The OSF disk is similarly exported to SUNOS and Ultrix without this problem.
> 
> Anyway, it's basically good news to me.  We'll follow up with SUN and DEC ...
> but at leisure.
> 
> Thanks for your very cooperative offer of help.  It looks like we're happy
> campers now.

I'm always happy to help solve a problem by not doing anything :-).

--Russ