[SUMMARY] NFS between Solaris and Linux

Jason Dixon <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.admin.managers
Organization DixonGroup Consulting
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Well, I wish I could say I have an authoritative answer on what caused
it, but I can no longer reproduce the problem.  I've tried the same
thing with the following mount options, all of which work fine:

vers=2,proto=udp
vers=3,proto=udp
vers=3
vers=3,proto=udp,noac
(no options)

At this point, I have to assume some other system and/or network anomoly
was causing the problem.  If I can reproduce and resolve the symptoms,
I'll re-summarize.  Thanks to the following folks for their suggestions:

Scott Croft(?) - force vers=3
Stephen Reppucci - concern over the Linux NIC
Sean McAvoy - lower the R/W sizes
Randy Schrickel - network concerns

-J.

On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 15:20, Jason Dixon wrote:
> Hi folks-
> 
> My apologies if this is out there somewhere, but I've googled this to
> death without finding a satisfactory answer.  I'm attempting to tar copy
> a large repository (actually, the RHAS3.0 iso images) from a Linux NFS
> server to a Solaris NFS client.  At various intervals, the transfer
> invariably dies with a "file not found" error.  The cause of this error
> can be explained by the sudden disappearance of directories in the
> top-level of the exported share.
> 
> Remounting the share causes the directories (and everything recursive
> therein) to reappear, but the problem reoccurs the next time I try the
> transfer.  I've tried a number of different flags, up to and including
> all of the following:
> 
> vers=2,proto=udp,ro,noac
> 
> Unfortunately, there's been no effect.  Has anyone run into this?  Is it
> a known incompatibility between NFS implementations?  The problem is
> easily reproducible.  The server is running Red Hat Advanced Server 2.1
> Update 2 on a DL380.  The client is running Solaris 8 on an E250.  Both
> servers, while on separate VLANs, are in the same general networking
> "vicinity".  Any ideas/solutions will be greatly appreciated.
> 
> TIA,
-- 
Jason Dixon, RHCE
DixonGroup Consulting
http://www.dixongroup.net
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