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Date:      Fri, 11 Dec 1998 15:30:02 -0500 (EST)
From:      spork <spork@super-g.com>
To:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   status of NFS?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.00.9812111525000.6967-100000@super-g.inch.com>

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Hi,

We're getting ready to replace two important production machines running
2.1.7.1 with two running our stable snap (980825).  We currently run nfs
between them to allow shell users to read mail locally (yes, I know about
IMAP, but the solution we have works well now...).  Basically the mail
server export /var/mail to the shell machine and the shell machine exports
/home so user's procmailrc's can be read, etc.  NFS is over a private
100Mb network on a second nic.

I'd just like to get a feel from everyone as to what the best options for
NFS in this situation are.  Right now, even with "soft" and "intr" flags,
I get un-killable processes should one of the mounts go away.  Generally,
reboots are required to get everything back in sync after a failure.  I'm
now using a line like so:

10.0.0.1:/var/mail      /var/mail       nfs 
rw,bg,intr,soft,nfsv3,tcp,nosuid,nodev,noexec

Looking at the archives, people seem to have better luck with v2 over udp.

Thoughts?

Thanks,

Charles

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Charles Sprickman
spork@super-g.com


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