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From: Werner Griessl <croot@btp1da.phy.uni-bayreuth.de>
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Subject: Re: NFS bug with 2.2R
In-Reply-To: <199702240753.XAA17547@newport.ece.uci.edu> from Steven Wallace at "Feb 23, 97 11:53:41 pm"
To: swallace@ece.uci.edu (Steven Wallace)
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 09:37:33 +0100 (MET)
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> 
> I seem to have run into a problem with NFS on 2.2R.
> 
> When I mount a NFS from a SunOS 4.1.2 system onto my 2.2R system,
> if I try to do a "ls" on a long directory it just hangs indefinitely.
> This is a problem with importing.
> 
> On the other hand, if I export my filesystem to a DEC Alpha running
> Digital UNIX 4.0, a directory listing only lists the first 43 files
> before it reports "Error 10003 occurred."
> 
> This happens with the latest 2.2R code.  On the other hand, with a 2.1.5R
> system there is NO PROBLEM importing/exporting to these systems.
> So some compatability or something has changed since 2.1.5 to make
> this happen.
> 
> Steven
> 
> 

Hi Steven,

I have the same problem with my alpha.
It's a problem with NFS-V3 in FreeBSD I believe.
Use option nfsv2 in the mount command on your Alpha to avoid this problem.

Werner