From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 15 20:41:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA10677 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 15 Jan 1996 20:41:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from cabal.io.org (cabal.io.org [198.133.36.103]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA10672 Mon, 15 Jan 1996 20:41:52 -0800 (PST) Received: (from taob@localhost) by cabal.io.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) id XAA01926; Mon, 15 Jan 1996 23:37:26 -0500 Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 23:37:26 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Tao To: Lyndon Nerenberg cc: FREEBSD-HACKERS-L , FREEBSD-ISP-L Subject: Re: A few other concerns from a FreeBSD ISP In-Reply-To: <199601062132.NAA07410@multivac.orthanc.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 6 Jan 1996, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > > The rlogin problem is as you described it. I see it under all 2.X > releases. It's been infrequent enough of a problem that I haven't > bothered with a fix. It is annoying, though. *sigh*... any ideas what might constitute a fix? > The NFS problem you see is specific to TCP mounts. Can you run UDP? How do I specify that? The nfsd's on the server are started as "nfsd -t -u 7", to accomodate both types of requests. I don't see any such option with mount or nfsiod on the client side. > There are other problems with TCP mounts. If you restart mountd on the > server the existing TCP connections are dropped, forcing you to go > through a manual umount/mount cycle on the clients. I'm not clear on > whether TCP mounts should restart automatically -- I can't find anything > that specifies how TCP based mounts are supposed to act. > > If hanging NFS mounts are a problem you really should look at using > amd. It's a bit of work to set up, but one running it at least gives > a workaround for some of the NFS problems. Then again, I find that right > now I cannot unmount and NFS FS that's gone stale, even with umount -f. I had that problem too. The directory mount point doesn't show up in an ls, mount says it isn't mounted, but df says it is. :( -- Brian Tao (BT300, taob@io.org) Systems Administrator, Internex Online Inc. "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"