From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 10 11:28:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA26320 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 11:28:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan@dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA26310 for ; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 11:28:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) id NAA13613; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 13:28:10 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <19980210132809.46885@emsphone.com> Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 13:28:09 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Simon Marlow , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.5 NFS troubles References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: ; from "Simon Marlow" on Tue Feb 10 17:12:31 GMT 1998 X-OS: FreeBSD 2.2-970701-RELENG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Feb 10), Simon Marlow said: > > I've been having several problems with NFS (mostly serving, but some > client trouble too) on my FreeBSD box. The box exports a few > filesystems to our local network, using NFSv3 (some of the machines on > this net don't seem to make NFSv2 mounts). Here's a rough run-down of > the problems I've had: > > - A remote client will hang sometimes. This is seem most > often on Sparc/Solaris boxes. I assumed it was the > problem mentioned in the section on NFS in the Handbook, and > duly bought a faster ethernet card (a PCI NE2000 card), but > the problem still persists. You might want to try lowering the NFS block size during the mount ( mount -r1024,-w1024 ). > - remote Alpha/OSF3 machines have trouble communicating NFSv3 > (only) with a FreeBSD server, resulting in missing directory > entries. I submitted a PR for this one, since > it's repeatable, but no-one seems to have taken it up. I get this one too, even with 2.2-stable (don't have a 3.0 machine at work to test with). uname -a on my Alpha: OSF1 redbrick1.emsphone.com V4.0 564 alpha I "fixed" it by just dropping back to nfsv2 mounts. -Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message