Re: NFS write problems (fwd)

Jan Niehusmann (jan005@gondor.com)
Wed, 10 Mar 1999 17:27:34 +0100


On Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 04:20:02AM -0800, David Whysong wrote:
> The file is written in a subdirectory of /mnt/data, with mount options:
>
> sleepy:/data on /mnt/data type nfs
> (rw,rsize=4096,wsize=4096,hard,intr,posix,addr=192.168.1.1)

The main difference I can see is the option 'hard'. I was mounting
the fs with 'soft'.

I am now trying to find out if the problem can occur with 'hard', too,
but I already wrote some 100 MB without problems. On the other hand, now
I expirience write stalls some times. (I'm not sure if they occured with
'soft', but I think they did not. Perhaps the stalls are caused by the
same problem as the I/O-errors when mounting 'soft'?)

> I stopped it after about 300 megabytes had been written. No problems, but
> it's not quite the same setup that you have.

Now my hard disk is really full and I wrote more than 1 GB without
an error message with nfs mounted 'hard'.

Perhaps I have to tune the retrans settings when mounting 'soft'...

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