Re: NFS

[Jukka Marin <jmarin%embedtronics.fi@localhost>]

On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 01:23:59PM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 02:10:06PM +0300, Jukka Marin wrote:
> > So, what's up with NFS?  Will it ever be fixed?

Thanks for the reply.

> Is there a PR for your issue?

I haven't filed one, no.

> Some things imediately spring to mind:
> 
>  - are you using IPF on the client? There was a fragment handling bug...

No.

>  - are you using amd(8)? There is something wrong in that area...

No.  (I never figured out how to use it ;)

>  - have you tried TCP instead of UDP mounts or vice versa? Some driver
>    bugs apparently can be worked around this way

I can try that.  (I think I have tried that before, though..)

>  - have you tried reducing write and read block size (like -r1024 -w1024)?
>    This sometimes helps broken drivers.

No.  I can try that, too.  (I'm using a local /home atm, though, to
be able to get some work done..)

>  - what eterhnet driver are you using?

I'm using ale now, but I have had similar problems with nfe and rtk
(although not as soon as today with ale).

  -jm