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From: gwk@crmunich0.cray.com (Georg-Wilhelm Koltermann)
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In-Reply-To: <199606060544.WAA04867@delphi.gordian.com> (message from Steve Khoo on Wed, 5 Jun 1996 22:44:01 -0700 (PDT))
Subject: Re: NFS problem: Irix 5.2 server, 2.2-960501-SNAP client
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> 
>     From: Steve Khoo <steve@delphi.gordian.com>
>     Subject: NFS problem: Irix 5.2 server, 2.2-960501-SNAP client
>     To: freebsd-current-digest@FreeBSD.ORG
>     Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1996 18:48:31 -0700 (PDT)
> 
>     I have an interesting nfs problem...
> 
>     The server is running irix 5.2 and the client is running 2.2-960501-SNAP.
>     The mount exit without any error, but when I do df, ls or pwd I get
>     the following:
> 
>     # df
>     Filesystem        1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
>     /dev/sd0a             49231    14290    31003    32%    /
>     /dev/sd0s1f         1388387   446552   830765    35%    /usr
>     /dev/sd0s1e           49231      797    44496     2%    /var
>     procfs                    4        4        0   100%    /proc
>     hermes:/n/hermes    1468230  1316047   152183    90%    /n/hermes
>     hermes:/n/hermes2    997025   867008   130016    87%    /n/hermes2
>     delphi:/n/delphi     639048   639048        0   100%    /n/delphi
>     delphi:/n/delphi2    639048   639048        0   100%    /n/delphi2
>     # cd /n/delphi
>     # ls
>     ls: .: Not a directory
>     # pwd
>     pwd: Not a directory
>     # 
> 
>     The last two filesystems listed in df are the problem filesystems.
> 
>     The funny thing is, I can nfs mount another SGI(hermes) also running
>     irix 5.2 without any problems.  The server with problems(delphi) is a
>     Challenge S server and (hermes) is Indigo.  The only difference I can
>     think of is, (hermes) was upgraded from irix 4.05 and the filesystem
>     was created in irix 4.05.  All filesystems on (delphi) was created in
>     irix 5.2.
> 
>     Any ideas?
> 

Just a thought: Did you try mounting with -o -P?  Some NFS servers like
to have that.

Georg-W. Koltermann, gwk@cray.com