Subject: Re: NFS swap problems?
To: None <drochner@zelux6.zel.kfa-juelich.de>
From: Charles M. Hannum <mycroft@ai.mit.edu>
List: tech-kern
Date: 08/23/1995 22:27:26 
   I have 2 i386-PCs running diskless NetBSD-1.0 for a while.
   When I build a new kernel, sometimes I have different
   strange effects:
   1. Some of the object files have length 0 -> linker complains.
   2. The kernel binary contains zeroed-out Pages.
   A second try works in most cases.

It sounds like you're using soft mounts.  If so, don't do that.  Soft
NFS mounts are not reliable.