From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 3 17:11:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA22963 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 17:11:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA22940 for ; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 17:10:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id JAA07660; Fri, 4 Sep 1998 09:39:52 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id JAA14064; Fri, 4 Sep 1998 09:39:49 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980904093949.N606@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 09:39:49 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Kevin Day Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NFS stable before release? References: <199809030541.AAA02169@home.dragondata.com> <9872.904807024@time.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <9872.904807024@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Thu, Sep 03, 1998 at 12:17:04AM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 3 September 1998 at 0:17:04 -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >> Is anyone currently working on getting NFS fixed before the 3.0 release? If > > Yes, we have just today made arrangements with another BSD developer > to jump in and work on this. I won't say who that developer is, but I > will say that I have a good deal of confidence in his ability to > accomplish notable things in short periods of time, and it certainly > doesn't hurt that he's extremely familiar with the code. More than > that I cannot say until I at least see some of the preliminary > results. Given that we only started today, everyone should also give > this process just a little time to ramp up. :) > > And yes, I'm very interested in reproducible failure scenarios. If > you have such a case and would like to be part of the testing/bug-fixing > loop, please send me a short email indicating as much. If you have any > PRs currently in the database concerning reproducible failure scenarios, > please indicate those as well and I'll make a note of them next to > your name. This list will then be passed on to the developer in question > for reference. I've already added Kevin Day in as the first entry. :) I haven't been able to use NFS between two specific systems for about two months now. It seems to be related to mount: mounts will only succeed about one time out of three. If they don't succeed, a second attempt will invariably hang the machine. It's unrelated to the system running on the client machine (2.2.[567] or -CURRENT), and other machines can mount on the server machine with no problems. I've tried changing just about everything on the client machine, including the Ethernet board, but the problem remains. About the only thing I could think of is the cable length between the machines, but that hasn't changed. I've done some tcpdump traces which show that the server is returning a "port not reachable" error, but I haven't had time to follow all the way through the stack. If anybody has some ideas on this one, I'd be really pleased to help fix it. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message