From owner-freebsd-net Tue Aug 11 08:39:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA22021 for freebsd-net-outgoing; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 08:39:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pau-amma.whistle.com (s205m64.whistle.com [207.76.205.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA22013 for ; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 08:39:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhw@whistle.com) Received: (from dhw@localhost) by pau-amma.whistle.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id IAA16112; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 08:37:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhw) Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 08:37:22 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill Message-Id: <199808111537.IAA16112@pau-amma.whistle.com> To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG, ted@wiz.plymouth.edu Subject: Re: Odd problem with NFS? In-Reply-To: <199808110013.UAA05718@wiz.plymouth.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >From: Ted Wisniewski >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