From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 23 20:10:33 2012 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 959161065674 for ; Sat, 23 Jun 2012 20:10:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vince@unsane.co.uk) Received: from unsane.co.uk (unsane-pt.tunnel.tserv5.lon1.ipv6.he.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f08:110::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C1C18FC0A for ; Sat, 23 Jun 2012 20:10:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vincemacbook.unsane.co.uk (vincemacbook.unsane.co.uk [10.10.10.20]) (authenticated bits=0) by unsane.co.uk (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q5NKASBs062315 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sat, 23 Jun 2012 21:10:28 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from vince@unsane.co.uk) Message-ID: <4FE62269.2030706@unsane.co.uk> Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 21:09:13 +0100 From: Vincent Hoffman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120614 Thunderbird/13.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org" X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Occassional "permission denied" in the middle of a large transfer over NFS 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, 23 Jun 2012 20:10:33 -0000 I seem to have run into the problems described in this old thread. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-April/044927.html tl:dr mountd may give incorrect permission denied errors when it is refreshing the exports list, /sbin/mount has code that sends SIGHUP to mountd on any mount operation. Which implies that any manual mount request, including NFS mounts would cause the problem. Does anyone know if this is still the case with the new NFS server? thanks, Vince