From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 3 21:20:04 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 30BA8BBB for ; Sun, 3 Aug 2014 21:20:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fly.hiwaay.net (fly.hiwaay.net [216.180.54.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F020420BA for ; Sun, 3 Aug 2014 21:20:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.4] (rbn1-216-180-76-216.adsl.hiwaay.net [216.180.76.216]) by fly.hiwaay.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/fly) with ESMTP id s73LK2n4002961 for ; Sun, 3 Aug 2014 16:20:02 -0500 Message-ID: <53DEA8F9.9050900@hiwaay.net> Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2014 16:26:17 -0500 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130625 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "FreeBSD Questions !!!!" Subject: Re: automount .... References: <53DD79D3.9000900@hiwaay.net> <53DE422C.9030406@hiwaay.net> <20140803152406.GA67677@slackbox.erewhon.home> <53DE7B9B.5010308@hiwaay.net> <20140803190141.GA68431@slackbox.erewhon.home> In-Reply-To: <20140803190141.GA68431@slackbox.erewhon.home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2014 21:20:04 -0000 On 08/03/14 14:01, Roland Smith wrote: > On Sun, Aug 03, 2014 at 01:12:43PM -0500, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: >>> And I wonder how many people are actually using NFS these days. In offices, >>> SMB/CIFS seems paramount these days. >> Yeah, if you are cursed w/ a plethora of M$FT boxen on your network .... >> none on mine, only VM's .... > Fortunate soul. I'm mostly stuck with 'doze at work. :-( > >>>> ? I got amd running, it seems to work OK, except that it drops a mount after >>>> 5 min. active or not. >>> From the amd(8) manual: >>> >>> File systems are automatically unmounted when they appear to be quiescent. >>> >>> It seems you and amd have a difference of opinion about what active/quiescent >>> means... >> Indeed, except that I was midstroke on a large cp of files onto the >> FreeBSD box from its soon-to-be predescessor, I thought that would >> qualify as activity .... > You would think that, yes. But maybe there was an underlying NFS error? > > For a one-time copy I tend to use tar with its output piped into netcat, and > the reverse on the receiving side. No complicated setup and it's pretty fast; > I've seen it saturate a 100 Mbit link. > > For distributing regular updates, you cannot beat rsync, IMO. And it still > requires less setup effort than nfs and amd. > > Roland What I think may have happened is slow enough I/O off of this machine that it looked quiescent to the new box. I tried the cp again from the server that rsyncs this box nightly & the cp completed. The server is 1Gbit ethernet, & my LAN is gigabit switched, but this box is a troll, AMD Athlon64X2 3800+ based, 2 GB RAM, 20 GB root drive (91+ % full), 160 GB SATA home drive, 97+ % full, & 100 mbit ethernet. That's why it's getting replaced :-) .... -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.