Rather than forcing NFS2:

ex.
/sbin/mount_nfs -a 4 -i -s puma3:/usr/src /usr/src


On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 6:35 PM, Richard Rauch <mailto:rauch@rice.edu> wrote:
>I wantd to re-mount an NFS export that I'd set up (and used) in the past.
>Most things work, but if I try to read a much data, the reading process
>freezes.  If I mount_nfs with -i, I can at least kill the frozen
>processes.  (Is there a graceful way to recover if I don't use -i?  I gave
>up waiting for an umount -f/shutdown, and just cycled the power.)
>
>I've tried with and without -T.
>
>I finally got it to work by *forcing* -2 (NFS version 2 protocol).
>
>Given this information, can someone tell me why the default (NFS version
>3) won't work?  (I've used it in the past, I'm sure.  I can't think of
>anything that should be different now, offhand.)
>
>
>Both systems in question are NetBSD 1.5.2.  (I'm also getting receiver
>ring buffer overruns.  Those don't seem to be causing a problem, though
>they appear to be a bit frequent for comfort.)
>
>
>  ``I probably don't know what I'm talking about.'' --rauch@math.rice.edu
>
>
>





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