From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 30 15:44:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA20298 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 15:44:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cais.cais.com (root@cais.com [199.0.216.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA20278 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 15:44:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from earth.mat.net (root@earth.mat.net [205.252.122.1]) by cais.cais.com (8.8.5/) with SMTP id SAA22572; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 18:44:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Journey2.mat.net (journey2.mat.net [205.252.122.116]) by earth.mat.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA27830; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 18:44:23 -0400 Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 18:44:07 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@Journey2.mat.net To: Samy Touati cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NFS V3 is it stable? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 30 Jun 1997, Samy Touati wrote: > > Hi, > > > I'm using fbsd2.2.2 acting as a mail server with a bunch of solaris 2 > client workstations. > From time to time I'm getting a read or write failure (RPC error 5). > I log into the fbsd server and everything seems fine. > Rebooting the solairs client seems to solve the problem for a while until > it restarts again. > > I noticed that the used nfs is ver3, should I turn on the vers 2 nfs to be > able to get a reliable nfs. For now I lost 2 mailboxes because of these > errors. > Is frebsd 2.2.2 a recommended nfs v3 server? Samy, are you using NFS to mount the mail sppol directories? Since nfs locking isn't in a very good condition, it's almost guaranteed to fail. The mail directories are accessed bot for mail delivery and mail pickup, and reliable locking is a top requirement. > > Thanks. > > > > > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------