Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 16:05:12 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: gallatin@stat.Duke.EDU, jkh@time.cdrom.com Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS v3 problem Message-ID: <199605230605.QAA01537@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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> > > I think that I've tracked this down to ar interacting with nfsv3; it
> > > doesn't seem to matter if the f77 or ranlib steps are run when the fs
> > > is mounted nfsv2 or nfsv3. Ranlib will always fail if ar was run on
> > > an nfsv3 mounted fs, and always succeed if ar was run on an nfsv2
> > > mounted fs.
This problem is very old. I don't think nfsv3 has ever been usable in
FreeBSD, although I use it every day, mostly read-only.
>After doing a little digging, I see that the v2 and local disk version
>of what ar spits out is 61454 bytes of meaningful data, but the v3
>version is all 0's above 57352 bytes.
>According to ktrace, the last thing ar does before closing the file is
>to ftruncate() it to the size it should be. an ar with the
>ftruncate() called hacked out of it produces a file 57352 bytes long.
>Apparently ftruncate() is accounting for the 0's.
The problem seems to me much more fundamental. In the following program,
under -current, the last write() doesn't make it to the disk:
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <unistd.h>
int main(void)
{
char buf[0x2000];
memset(buf, '1', 1);
write(1, buf, 1);
memset(buf, '2', 0x2000);
write(1, buf, 0x2000); /* this block size is critical */
memset(buf, '3', 1);
write(1, buf, 1);
return 0;
}
$ mount -t nfs -o -3 localhost:/usr /mnt
$ cd /mnt/somewhere/that/probably/doesnt/matter
$ /tmp/aboveprog >z
$ cat z # no 3 at the end
There is also a vm bug in ktrace. This is independent of the nfs bug:
$ cd /usr/src/lib/libtermcap
$ make
$ rm obj/libtermcap.a
$ ktrace -id make
$ cp ktrace.out z
$ kdump >/dev/null # fails
$ kdump -f z >/dev/null # works
$ cmp ktrace.out z # fails
Bruce
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