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Date:      Tue, 11 Aug 1998 08:37:22 -0700 (PDT)
From:      David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com>
To:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG, ted@wiz.plymouth.edu
Subject:   Re: Odd problem with NFS?
Message-ID:  <199808111537.IAA16112@pau-amma.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <199808110013.UAA05718@wiz.plymouth.edu>

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>From: Ted Wisniewski <ted@wiz.plymouth.edu>
>Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 20:13:14 -0400 (EDT)

>The problem, we are getting seemingly random corruptions (mostly in mail spool
>files), the corruptions are a bunch of NULL characters written to the file
>in place of real data.  I cannot seem to pin it down,  I am making the 
>assumption that it has to do with the NFS interaction between the NetApp
>and my FreeBSD Box.   I have tried to duplicate the problem but cannot,
>however, the users are definitely experiencing it (as I have had to
>fix 10 or so mail spool files).  I have eliminated the mail client/server
>applications as a possible culprit(s) by seeing what the users do and do not
>have in common.    

>	Any advice anyone can offer will be appreciated....  I am nearly
>out of options.    Thanks...

If you're allowing NFS V3, you *might* want to try forcing NFS V2.

(I've heard various unpleasant things about V3 on FreeBSD, and in fact,
I did what I could to force the use of V2 here, which seems to have made
things quite a lot more stable, until I can get the time to look for the
real problem(s)....)

david
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