Re: [Re: NFS -current

2003-03-27 Thread Christopher Fowler
On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 12:24, Steve Sizemore wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 12:09:28AM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > > Steve Sizemore wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 12:18:11AM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > In fact, the only legitimate argument I have ever heard for UDP > > > > has been

Re: [Re: NFS -current

2003-03-27 Thread Steve Sizemore
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 12:09:28AM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > Steve Sizemore wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 12:18:11AM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > In fact, the only legitimate argument I have ever heard for UDP > > > has been "I have an old Linux install that can't talk TCP, as > > > o

Re: [Re: NFS -current

2003-03-27 Thread Terry Lambert
Steve Sizemore wrote: > On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 12:18:11AM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > > In fact, the only legitimate argument I have ever heard for UDP > > has been "I have an old Linux install that can't talk TCP, as > > only UDP was implemented at the time I installed it". > > Have you alread

Re: [Re: NFS -current

2003-03-26 Thread Steve Sizemore
On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 12:18:11AM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > > In fact, the only legitimate argument I have ever heard for UDP > has been "I have an old Linux install that can't talk TCP, as > only UDP was implemented at the time I installed it". Hi, Terry - Have you already forgotten the lo

Re: NFS -current

2003-03-26 Thread Ian Dowse
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Terry Lambert writes: >Ian Dowse wrote: >> It is normal enough to get the above 'not responding' errors >> occasionally on a busy fileserver, but only if they are almost >> immediately followed by 'is alive again' messages. > >This is arguably a bug in the FreeBSD UD

Re: NFS -current

2003-03-26 Thread Patric Mrawek
Ian Dowse wrote: > >On several clients (-DP1, -DP2, 4-stable) mounting a nfs-share > >(mount_nfs -i -U -3 server:/nfs /mnt) and then copying data from that > >share to the local disk (find -x -d /mnt | cpio -pdumv /local) results > >in lost NFS-mount. > > > >client kernel: nfs server server:/nfs:

Re: [Re: NFS -current

2003-03-26 Thread Terry Lambert
Dan Nelson wrote: > UDP works just fine on a switched network. On my NFS servers I use an > 8k rsize/wsize and UDP mounts on everything and have relatively few > dropped fragments. I'm not sure Ian's network is as reliable. 8-). Nevertheless, you really do not want to use UDP for NFS with a pac

Re: [Re: NFS -current

2003-03-25 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Mar 25), Terry Lambert said: > Ian Dowse wrote: > > I'm not sure what you mean by a "lost" mount. Do all further > > accesses to the filesystem hang? > > > > It is normal enough to get the above 'not responding' errors > > occasionally on a busy fileserver, but only if they ar

[Re: NFS -current

2003-03-25 Thread Terry Lambert
Ian Dowse wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Patric Mrawek writes: > >On several clients (-DP1, -DP2, 4-stable) mounting a nfs-share > >(mount_nfs -i -U -3 server:/nfs /mnt) and then copying data from that > >share to the local disk (find -x -d /mnt | cpio -pdumv /local) results > >in lost NF

[Re: NFS -current

2003-03-25 Thread Jeff Utter
I'm not sure if it's related, but i've noticed under HEAVY nfs load my nfs server hangs for a while, then it REBOOTS! i'm pretty sure it's a nfs related problem, because doing heavy disk i/o on the server itself doen't have any related problems at all.. only when it's heavy access over nfs.

Re: NFS -current

2003-03-25 Thread Ian Dowse
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Patric Mrawek writes: >On several clients (-DP1, -DP2, 4-stable) mounting a nfs-share >(mount_nfs -i -U -3 server:/nfs /mnt) and then copying data from that >share to the local disk (find -x -d /mnt | cpio -pdumv /local) results >in lost NFS-mount. > >client kernel:

NFS -current

2003-03-25 Thread Patric Mrawek
Hi, are there any known issues with NFS-mounts using UDP? I'm seeing some weird behaviour with a NFS-server (-current as of today). On several clients (-DP1, -DP2, 4-stable) mounting a nfs-share (mount_nfs -i -U -3 server:/nfs /mnt) and then copying data from that share to the local disk (find -x