Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 22:07:34 -0200 (EDT) From: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis <jonny@coppe.ufrj.br> To: viren@rstcorp.com Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.6 for NFS server Message-ID: <199802270007.WAA17130@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br> In-Reply-To: <199802251846.NAA05311@rstcorp.com> from "Viren R. Shah" at "Feb 25, 98 01:46:54 pm"
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#define quoting(Viren R. Shah) // We just got a server in that will be acting as our main NFS server. We // intend to run 2.2.x on it. Couple of questions: // // 1. Is 2.2.6 close enough that we should put off installing 2.2-STABLE // for a few days? Or in other terms, are there enough stability // improvements in 2.2.6 that we should definitely wait for it. Install it, and do a cvsup/make world after. :) // 2. I've seen a few mentions of NFS problems on 2.2.5. Are there any // big gotchas wrt using a 2.2.x box as an NFS server? I have some problems with NFS that I could not yet track down the source. If I try to use NFS in a full 100Mbps network, some time the client locks up completely, and I have to reboot. The problem seens to have diminished a lot when I upgraded the server's CPU from P90 to P200, so I think it's some kind of performance feature. Somebody said the problem is my network card, 3c905, that is a bad performing one, but this is not an excuse for a locking up NFS client. A big problem you'll find with FreeBSD as a NFS server is that its rpc.lockd is a fake. It'll always answer "Ok" to requesting clients, but it'll never make a real file lock. This is specially bad if you plan to mount your mail directory over NFS. Jonny -- Joao Carlos Mendes Luis jonny@gta.ufrj.br +55 21 290-4698 jonny@coppe.ufrj.br Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro UFRJ/COPPE/CISI PGP fingerprint: 29 C0 50 B9 B6 3E 58 F2 83 5F E3 26 BF 0F EA 67 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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