Re: server crashing

[Matthias Scheler <tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost>]

On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 02:50:12PM -0400, Al Zick wrote:
> I just leased a new server with NetBSD 5.1 on it. I have over 600 GB
> of websites on it. It seems to run fine, serving pages happily until
> I try to back it up with rsync over an nfs to another server on the
> back end network.

Is your machine the NFS server or client in this setup? If it is the
NFS server you might suffer from this problem:

        http://gnats.netbsd.org/45093
        http://releng.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/req-5.cgi?show=1644

The above problem has been fixed in the "netbsd-5" branch.

        Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://zhadum.org.uk/