Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 21:49:33 +0300 From: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> To: Guy Harris <gharris@flashcom.net> Cc: guy@netapp.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nfs v2 Message-ID: <E13eikP-00016O-00@sexta.cs.huji.ac.il> In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 28 Sep 2000 11:04:30 -0700 .
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In message <20000928110430.B362@quadrajet.flashcom.com>you write: }I'll have to check on this when I get into work (please reply not only }to my address at home, "gharris@flashcom.net", but also to my work }address, which I'm CCing), but, if I remember correctly, I had to put }some amount of gunk into the NFS V2 implementation on NetApp filers to }handle after mounting -2 on a fbsd box, i deleted the dev directory and MAKDEV all and things are ok now. } } 1) NFS V2 having, as I remember, insufficient bits in the } major/minor device value used when creating special files to } support more than 8 bits of major and 8 bits of minor device; if i remember correctly,i copied the / over to the NetAPP via nfsv3 either tar or dump, and all is ok. it's when it gets mounted v2 (which the diskcless boot does) it's when dev is wrong. } 2) some OSes - Solaris was the one with which we were having } problems, as I remember - requiring those extra bits. i tried solaris 2.6 and it's ok. } }NFS V3 is probably a better idea, if you can use it; we (NetApp) have }supported it for many years, and I suspect most if not all other vendors }of NFS servers do so as well. } and it's the prefered mount here too, the problem is the FreeBSD nfs_root/boot that is booting using V2. im trying to see how to get the boot to it's magic via V3, but that does not fix the problem :-) }Also, could you get a network trace of: } } the creation of the "/dev/null" entry, if it was done over NFS; } } attempts by the FreeBSD box to get the attributes of "/dev/null" } via NFS (e.g., an "ls -l /mnt/tmp/null", from your example); } }and send them to me? if you mena a tcpdump, that will have to wait till the morning (my morning :-) } Thanks, danny PS: out of curosity, what os is NetAPP base on? }(Note to self: } } % ls -l /dev/null } crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 2, 2 Sep 28 10:06 /dev/null } }.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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