From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 17 08:53:29 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BC0316A446 for ; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 08:53:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from alex@acatysmoof.com) Received: from gouda.acatysmoof.com (adsl-64-170-164-211.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.170.164.211]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7604243D46 for ; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 08:53:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from alex@acatysmoof.com) Received: from www.acatysmoof.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gouda.acatysmoof.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j9H8rPej013593 for ; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 01:53:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alex@acatysmoof.com) From: "Alex Teslik" To: "List freebsd-questions" Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 01:53:25 -0700 Message-Id: <20051017082605.M95790@acatysmoof.com> X-Mailer: Open WebMail 2.51 20050320 X-OriginatingIP: 64.170.164.211 (alex) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version 0.70, clamav-milter version 0.70j X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Scanned-By: milter-spamc/0.17.257 (gouda.acatysmoof.com [64.170.164.211]); Mon, 17 Oct 2005 01:53:26 -0700 X-Spam-Status: NO, hits=2.50 required=6.00 X-Spam-Level: ** Subject: NFS connection dropping 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: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 08:53:29 -0000 Hello, I've been trying to do rsync backups of my local FreeBSD system to a firewire drive that is mounted on an OSX machine and shared to my FBSD box via nfs over gigabit copper. I have done backups before to this same firewire drive, on these same systems, over nfs with tar and had no problems. I can't figure out why its not working now. The Mac is a G4 running OSX 10.2.8 and is the NFS server. The firewire drive is plugged into this machine and is named "BackupDrive". I activate the nfs sharing on this machine for this drive by running the commands: /usr/sbin/portmap /usr/sbin/mountd /sbin/nfsd -t -u -n 6 The drive is configured in NetInfo Manager as: name /Volumes/BackupDrive clients 192.168.4.1 opts mapall=root All power saving and disk spindown features have been turned off in System Preferences. The FreeBSD machine is an x86 box running 4.10-RELEASE-p5. I mount the BackupDrive to the local mount point /mnt/misc via the command: mount 192.168.4.200:/Volumes/BackupDrive /mnt/misc All power-saving features are disabled on this box as well - it is a server. I then run rsync on the FBSD box to backup a local disk to the mounted nfs disk. Everything works great for about 5-10 minutes, and then the rsync freezes and issues the message: nfs server 192.168.4.200:/Volumes/BackupDrive: not responding The rsync shell is frozen. I try to do df in another shell, but the df simply hangs. I've tried killall for nfsd, mountd, portmap, nfsiod, and df on both machines as unsuccessful attempts to try to get the FBSD shells to un-hang. The only way I have found to un-hang the shells is to reboot the FBSD box. During this freeze time, I can access the firewire drive on the Mac with no problems - it is only FBSD that is frozen. I have tried to re-serve the drive via nfs, but the FBSD box does not reconnect to it automagically. I've tried reading Google and everywhere else I can think of - does anyone have any tips or ideas on what might be causing the timeout? Thanks, Alex