Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 16:42:06 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> Cc: BRiGHTMN <brightmn@server.local.sunyit.edu>, FreeBSD-Hackers <FreeBSD-Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: mounting Message-ID: <19970630164206.27593@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970630162732.7038T-100000@Journey2.mat.net>; from Chuck Robey on Mon, Jun 30, 1997 at 04:30:02PM -0400 References: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970612161416.6201A-100000@server.local.sunyit.edu> <Pine.BSF.3.96.970630162732.7038T-100000@Journey2.mat.net>
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Chuck Robey scribbled this message on Jun 30: > On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, BRiGHTMN wrote: > I think I now have it figured out. Desperation does wonderful things for > the mind ... Michael Smith had told me previously about the abysmal > performance of the 3C503 card that machine has, about some buffer > incompatibility it has, and I think it's ibtten me now. I found disk > space, tarred up what I wanted to transfer, and I sent it over that way, > which worked like a charm. Means I can't get nfs mounting to work, but at > least I can get what I want up, going along. have you tried to use a smaller nfs block size?? i.e. 1k instead of the default 8k? I vaguely remeber something about that fixing some problems with the 3c503... > > > I'm trying to do an NFS mount of a directory on a 3.0 machine onto another > > > machine that's running 2.2.1, for the purpose of transferring /usr/src. I > > > can mount the 3.0 machine's /usr/src onto my (current) machine and > > > transfer files with no problem. When I do the mount onto the 2.2.1 > > > machine, the first ls works, then everything afterwards fails, and hangs. > > > I have tried, as a test, just to transfer the Makefile into another > > > directory, here's the ps from it: > > > > > > 207 p1 D 0:00.01 cp /usr/src/Makefile > > > > > > I don't understand the "D" status. All the nfsd and nfsiod's are running, > > > as is portmap and mountd, on both machines. Since I can successfully > > > mount and tranfer files from the source machine to my own, I think maybe > > > it's in the target machine (the 2.2.1 machine) that has the trouble, but I > > > can't guess what it is. Can you? > > > > > > I've tried this several times, and done some reboot cycles that seemed to > > > work just fine. I'm willing to do some experimentation ... -- John-Mark Gurney Modem/FAX: +1 541 683 6954 Cu Networking Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD
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