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 -- David Wolfskill UNIX System Administrator dhw@whistle.com voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 371-4621 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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