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Date:      Sat, 6 Apr 2002 10:33:10 -0800
From:      Aditya <aditya@grot.org>
To:        Kip Macy <kmacy@netapp.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: NFS hang with fxp and Network Appliance fileserver
Message-ID:  <20020406183310.GA10055@mighty.grot.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10204052259090.20180-100000@orbit>
References:  <20020406055443.GA82908@mighty.grot.org> <Pine.GSO.4.10.10204052259090.20180-100000@orbit>

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Kip,

with v3 TCP mounts I'm getting:

  Stale NFS file handle.

complaints after a few hours of inactivity. I've verified that the filer has
not rebooted.

Adi

On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 11:19:39PM -0800, Kip Macy wrote:
> > Okay, I've forced nfs v3 and tcp like this:
> > 
> >   -3,tcp,ro,intr,nodev,nosuid,noauto
> > 
> > and seems to work fine too...so the problem is with fragments on v2 and v3 UDP
> > mounts (I tested both and they had the same "hanging" behaviour).
> > 
> 
> I'm glad that that fixed the problem. If this is not already documented on this
> end, I will try to get it updated to reflect this.
> 
> I think TCP should be the default. I agree with Kirk that the designers of
> NFSv2 took statelessness a little too seriously when they used UDP. The fact of
> the matter is you still have state, but you move it from the network stack into
> the client and the server. The end effect being that you reproduce parts of TCP
> badly.


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