From owner-freebsd-current Sat Aug 30 16:48:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA08252 for current-outgoing; Sat, 30 Aug 1997 16:48:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from minor.stranger.com (stranger.vip.best.com [204.156.129.250]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id QAA08247 for ; Sat, 30 Aug 1997 16:48:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dog.farm.org (dog.farm.org [207.111.140.47]) by minor.stranger.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id QAA09590; Sat, 30 Aug 1997 16:50:29 -0700 Received: (from dk@localhost) by dog.farm.org (8.7.5/dk#3) id QAA20121; Sat, 30 Aug 1997 16:45:02 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 30 Aug 1997 16:45:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Dmitry Kohmanyuk Message-Id: <199708302345.QAA20121@dog.farm.org> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS installation mount options? Newsgroups: cs-monolit.gated.lists.freebsd.current Organization: FARM Computing Association Reply-To: dk+@ua.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In article <28718.872888936@time.cdrom.com> you wrote: > > In order for existing FreeBSD systems to mount this file server > > properly we must specify the options: > > > > -d -t 60 > > > > on the mount_nfs command. > > > > Is there anyway to specify these mount options when installing > > via NFS? > Hmmmm. Not really since mount_nfs isn't on the boot floppy - it's > done internally by sysinstall. I've never had to override the > timeout values on an install before - what's this NA box doing, > exactly? :) I have F330 at work and as far as I know, it mounts fine without any retransmission timeout override options (as above). Maybe it depends on network load, though... It acts the same way as any other NFS server, and it's pretty fast (both reads and writes). I get occasional `short reads' and one other message (look for my earlier postings to the list). -- Perl's grammar can not be reduced to BNF. The work of parsing perl is distributed between yacc, the lexer, smoke and mirrors. -- Chaim Frenkel