George Harvey writes:
> I'd
> particularly like to get NFS working, are there any patches/workrounds
> that might help? 
> 

Not that I've got insight this particular problem, and this won't get to 
your root cause, but my personal first dirty trick to NFS problems is to 
reduce the NFS read and write block size to 4K, 2K or 1K.  Might let you 
limp along until you figure out what's really wrong. 

Ken