From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 9 17:55:09 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA17290 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 17:55:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from janus.utilicom.com (janus.utilicom.com [204.188.4.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA17283 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 17:55:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lpoulsen@utilicom.com) Received: from Lars (lars-pc.utilicom.com [204.188.4.134]) by janus.utilicom.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id RAA12926 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 17:55:41 -0800 Message-Id: <199902100155.RAA12926@janus.utilicom.com> X-Sender: lpoulsen@janus.utilicom.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 17:52:11 -0800 To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: Lars Poulsen Subject: Re: Strange NFS Problem Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [I sent this to freebsd-questions a few minutes ago, meaning to cc freebsd-hackers, but my fat fingers instead typed freebAd-hackers, which sounds like a political poster...] Yesterday, I wrote on freebsd-questions: >I am running a mostly Linux shop, but have a single FreeBSD workstation to >support an application which is only available for FreeBSD. I am NFS exporting >a 4GB /home file system from DIANA, my main Linux file server, and importing >it to ATHENA, which runs FreeBSD 2.2.7. > >Users on ATHENA (the FreeBSD system) can read files on DIANA:/home, >and they can create very small files, but if they try to write a file of more than >about 70 bytes, they get "FILE TRUNCATED" errors, and nothing gets written. It was suggested to me that this problem had been discussed in the past on freebsd-hackers, and that a fix was expected to be in FreeBSD 3.1 (due out any day now). I failed to find any prior FreeBSD bug reports or freebsd-hackers discussion, but I think I have found a description and a partial fix in the Debian Linux bug database, http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/28/28642.html. If I understand the writeup correctly, FreeBSD 2.2.6 and 2.2.7 will under some circumstances generate a malformed write command packet, which is being rejected by Linux NFSD versions from a October 1998, which happens to be about when RedHat 5.2 was packaged. It would seem that upgrading either of the two systems would resolve the problem. Most likely, I will try to retrieve the latest binary package of Linux's nfs-server package and hope that fixes the problem. I am sending this message to - inform freebsd-questions readers (and archive searchers) about the solution - ask freebsd-hackers to confirm that the problem is indeed resolved and which of the following releases contain the fix: 2.2.8, 3.0, 3.1 ?? / Lars Poulsen E-mail: Senior Software Engineer Telephone: +1-805-964-5848 ext 279 UtiliCom Inc, 323 David Love Place, Santa Barbara, CA 93117, USA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message