From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 5 02:13:38 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4177A1065688 for ; Sat, 5 Jul 2008 02:13:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perryh@pluto.rain.com) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (oldagora.rdrop.com [199.26.172.34]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 207088FC1B for ; Sat, 5 Jul 2008 02:13:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perryh@pluto.rain.com) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (66@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by agora.rdrop.com (8.13.1/8.12.7) with ESMTP id m652Db7Y096025 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Fri, 4 Jul 2008 19:13:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from perryh@pluto.rain.com) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by agora.rdrop.com (8.13.1/8.12.9/Submit) with UUCP id m652DbKA096024 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 4 Jul 2008 19:13:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fbsd61 by pluto.rain.com (4.1/SMI-4.1-pluto-M2060407) id AA11953; Fri, 4 Jul 08 19:09:59 PDT Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:10:44 -0700 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <486ed824.Qk+B4m7i0LUfOGZZ%perryh@pluto.rain.com> User-Agent: nail 11.25 7/29/05 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: mount_nfs not accepting syntax specified by its usage complaint X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2008 02:13:38 -0000 How does this command: # mount_nfs -dis -g 8 -I 512 -R 3 -r 512 -w 512 solomon:/var/spool/uucp /solomon/uucp not comply with the resulting usage complaint? usage: mount_nfs [-234bcdiLlNPsTU] [-a maxreadahead] [-D deadthresh] [-g maxgroups] [-I readdirsize] [-o options] [-R retrycnt] [-r readsize] [-t timeout] [-w writesize] [-x retrans] rhost:path node And yes, I really do want to set the read, write, and readdir sizes to 512 bytes (to get around a network packet-size problem to which I can find no other solution). The server is up: # ping solomon PING solomon (192.168.200.3): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 192.168.200.3: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=2.807 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.200.3: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=2.755 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.200.3: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=2.555 ms ^C --- solomon ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 2.555/2.706/2.807/0.109 ms and the mount point does exist: # ls -ld /solomon/uucp drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jul 4 18:34 /solomon/uucp # uname -a FreeBSD fbsd70.uucp 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24 19:59:52 UTC 2008 root@logan.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 I get the same behavior, with a very slightly different usage message, from a 6.1 system. The server is an ancient sun3 running SunOS 4.1.1-U1, but it looks as if the mount attempt is not getting far enough for that to matter.