From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 9 21:34:40 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 685F2106564A for ; Sat, 9 Oct 2010 21:34:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rmacklem@uoguelph.ca) Received: from esa-jnhn.mail.uoguelph.ca (esa-jnhn.mail.uoguelph.ca [131.104.91.44]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23D928FC08 for ; Sat, 9 Oct 2010 21:34:40 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApwEAKd8sEyDaFvO/2dsb2JhbACDH6AViBmiGJFxgSKDMXQEikA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.57,309,1283745600"; d="scan'208";a="96731072" Received: from erie.cs.uoguelph.ca (HELO zcs3.mail.uoguelph.ca) ([131.104.91.206]) by esa-jnhn-pri.mail.uoguelph.ca with ESMTP; 09 Oct 2010 17:34:39 -0400 Received: from zcs3.mail.uoguelph.ca (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by zcs3.mail.uoguelph.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39B60B3F59; Sat, 9 Oct 2010 17:34:39 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2010 17:34:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Rick Macklem To: Marco van Tol Message-ID: <2095120971.471944.1286660079166.JavaMail.root@erie.cs.uoguelph.ca> In-Reply-To: <20101008110030.GD94234@tolstoy.tols.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [174.114.48.168] X-Mailer: Zimbra 6.0.7_GA_2476.RHEL4 (ZimbraWebClient - SAF3 (Mac)/6.0.7_GA_2473.RHEL4_64) Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, gil@vidals.net Subject: Re: moving away from freebsd and zfs X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2010 21:34:40 -0000 > On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 03:00:28AM -0700, Gil Vidals wrote: > > The solution described here, > > http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=11873 points to compiling > > a > > kernel with these options: > > > > options NFSD > > options DEVICE_POLLING > > options HZ=1000 > > > > The NFSD seems to be what solved the problem for the forum poster, > > but NFSD > > option means that NFSv4 (experimental) is what is running and that > > isn't > > supported by the VMware NFS client, so I can't use it. I don't know > > what to > > do and I would be grateful for any suggestions. > > I haven't got much experience with nfs4, sorry. :) > > Marco > The experimental NFS server (NFSD) handles NFSv2 and NFSv3 as well as NFSv4, so it should be usable for this. I've also pointed Gil to the patch at: http://people.freebsd.org/~rmacklem/freebsd8.1-patches/replay.patch which I believe might fix his problem w.r.t. the regular server. (pjd@ has a nicer one, but they both fix the same problem) rick