Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 09:10:38 -0500 From: Sam Suh <sam@bigstudios.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: freeBSD NFS volume remote mount concern: Message-ID: <3C209FDE.1F724E1F@bigstudios.com>
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Hi, everyone. I have 4.4 stable RAID 5 machine on the network which will serve as file server for my SGI and NT users. Problem is, SGI could not mount my NFS exported 4.4 volume. IRIX version 6.3 will flat out tell me no can do. It will say "Resource busy", then it says "giving up on: ... ". IRIX 6.5 will mount them. However, even the "ls" on directory with 8 files in them will take forever. Usually, after 5 minutes of wait, I stop and kill the "ls" process because it clearly is wrong. The thing is, after this, IRIX 6.5 refuses to umount the drive. Only after insistent tries and much after, it will umount the drive. My research on this subject turned up this handbook article: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/nfs.html. In it, the section 17.4.5 tells me I can get around this problem with specifying read/write block size of 1024; however, this does not work. Has anyone ever had to overcome this hurdle? If you did, I will be much appreciated if you could give me a pointer on how to solve this. I mean, I convinced my boss to go with freebsd, siting it is much stable and powerful OS than Linux or WinNT(yuck!). It will not be looking good if IRIX couldn't mount freeBSD's NFS. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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