NFS-per se has change a lot since...NFSv4 came out. What NFS versions does NetBSD currently support? I had the sense that it probably tracked Rick Macklem's FreeBSD work at some distance... Like, does NetBSD support pNFS?
Matt ----- "David Holland" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 03, 2013 at 11:37:29AM -0400, Mouse wrote: > > At $JOB, we have two i386 machines with wm interfaces connected > > back-to-back with a short patch cable and a /30 subnet of 192.168. > One > > is NFS-serving some disk space to the other over this link. They > are > > running 4.0.1 (with a few tweaks of mine, but nothing touching > > sys/nfs); while it's fallen off the end of official support, I > thought > > someone might happen to recall enough to be useful.... > > nfs hasn't changed much, so if the problem is in nfs (rather than in > netinet) it's probably still in -current. > > not that this actually helps. > > Also note that there are a fair number of cases in nfs where lost > packets result in timeouts that don't get handled properly causing > things to wedge. If you haven't yet, try using tcp mounts as that > tends to avoid exercising some of those cases. > > -- > David A. Holland > [email protected] -- Matt Benjamin The Linux Box 206 South Fifth Ave. Suite 150 Ann Arbor, MI 48104 http://linuxbox.com tel. 734-761-4689 fax. 734-769-8938 cel. 734-216-5309
