Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 20:43:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net> To: Doug <Doug@gorean.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@yes.no> Subject: Re: readdirplus is very cool, any other nfs client suggestions? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990730203954.20420W-100000@cygnus.rush.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907301700370.8321-100000@dt011n65.san.rr.com>
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On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Doug wrote:
> Spent quite a bit of time today playing around with the newly
> repaired readdirplus option for nfs clients in -current. My thanks to Matt
> Dillon and Bill Paul. For those that don't remember, I'm trying to use
> amd/nfs client stuff on some freebsd web servers that read their data from
> our sun (and now sun + netapp) web farm. I have a script that used to lock
> up amd and/or nfs and/or the whole machine pretty regularly. I've run it
> about 100 times today in various conditions with no ill effects. About
> this I am quite pleased. :)
...
> amd.Interfaces:
>
> /defaults type:=nfs;opts:=rw,vers=3,readdirplus,intr,proto=udp
>
> * rhost:=IP${key};rfs:=/Space/${key}
Not to rain on your parade, but Dag-Erling informed me that there
was problems using NFSv3 over the loopback interface that can cause
lockups.
DES: can you elaborate? you think it may cause problems with amd
since it's like an NFS buffer isn't it and would work over the
loopback...
-Alfred
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