From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 8 13:42:06 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA07780 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 13:42:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp1.vnet.net (smtp1.vnet.net [166.82.1.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA07774 for ; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 13:42:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rivers@dignus.com) Received: from dignus.com (ponds.vnet.net [166.82.177.48]) by smtp1.vnet.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA06676; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 16:42:43 -0500 (EST) Received: from lakes.dignus.com (lakes.dignus.com [10.0.0.3]) by dignus.com (8.9.1/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA01030; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 17:25:25 -0500 (EST) Received: (from rivers@localhost) by lakes.dignus.com (8.9.1/8.6.9) id QAA08234; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 16:44:08 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 16:44:08 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas David Rivers Message-Id: <199902082144.QAA08234@lakes.dignus.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, lpoulsen@utilicom.com Subject: Re: Strange NFS Problem In-Reply-To: <199902082133.NAA07381@janus.utilicom.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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 > moe than > about 70 bytes, they get "FILE TRUNCATED" errors, and nothing gets written. > > It looks to me as if writes work when the data fits in the inode, but fail > when > a data block has to be allocated. (Does Linux use that storage scheme ? > I know BSD does.) > > 1) I thought this might be due to user limits, but the "limits" command says > everything is unlimited > 2) NFS mounts from a HP-UX system work fine (I have an HP-16601 Logic > Analyzer which access the same file system via NFS). > > Has anyone else seen such a thing ? What could cause this ? > First - I'm dying to know what application is only available for FreeBSD! (That's a good sign!) Second - when you say NFS mounts from an HP-UX system, do you mean HP-UX <-> LINUX or HP <-> FreeBSD? Third - I believe there were some NFS bugs in the 2.2.x branch that were not fixed. (Seems like I saw that mentioned on the -hackers list) When 3.1 comes out (next week?) you might consider upgrading to that. - Dave Rivers - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message