From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 11 09:18:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA02450 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 11 Jun 1997 09:18:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA02361 for ; Wed, 11 Jun 1997 09:16:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (herring.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.2]) by nlsystems.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA07107; Wed, 11 Jun 1997 17:15:23 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 17:15:23 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: "Joseph D. Orthoefer" cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: user-mode nfs daemon In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Joseph D. Orthoefer wrote: > Has anyone ported the usermode nfs server from linux to freebsd? The one > that ships with redhat-4.1(2?) compiles with very little fuss on my 2.2.2 > and current boxes, but seems to be unable to successfully transfer long > directory listings over a socket of any kind, including connections over > "localhost". Large files work okay, just long directory listings seem > hosed, with an "ls" on the client box not producing any output, hanging > until it gets a malloc error. Reproduced the same behavior by mounting > the exported filesystem on a solaris box. Exporting the same directory > tree using the kernel mode nfs server works without a problem. Why do you want this to work? The kernel NFS server is probably a lot more efficient. If you just want to get it to work for your own amusement, I would suggest using tcpdump to debug it. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 Fax: +44 181 381 1039