Subject: Re: NFS problem
To: None <rmk@rmkhome.com>
From: Greywolf <greywolf@starwolf.com>
List: current-users
Date: 10/25/2004 19:19:37
[Thus spake Rick Kelly ("RK: ") 4:52pm...]

RK: >>NetBSD rodent 2.0_RC4 NetBSD 2.0_RC4 (RODENT) #0: Sat Oct 23 01:44:08 MDT 2004  rmk@rodent:/usr/src/sys/arch/sparc/compile/RODENT sparc
RK:
RK: I changed /etc/fstab on the sun4m machine to:
RK:
RK: roothog:/u2/netbsd_2.0 /usr/src nfs rw,-r=1024,-w=1024
RK:
RK: That seems to do the trick. The SS5 is grinding away at:

You might want to experiment with 4096 or 8192.  I used to have problems
with my IPX once upon a time doing stuff like this -- 1024 was a severe
impediment, but it couldn't handle the default 32k.  8192 seemed to
work well.

[I believe 8192 was also the max blocksize for nfs2, so I was quite surprised
at the time when I found we were using 32k!]


				--*greywolf;
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