On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 02:10:06PM +0300, Jukka Marin wrote: > I have been using a setup where my $HOME is located on a NetBSD NFS server > (for 10+ years). Every now and then something goes wrong with NFS and > all accesses to /home cause the process enter disk wait (D in ps listing). > No matter how long I wait, the disk wait never completes. I can't even > shutdown and reboot the client system properly because shutdown fails > to unmount the NFS partition(s). At the same time, all other NFS mounts > from the same server work just fine. I'm using a blunt version of NFS: just plain /bulky -network xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/24 /bulky -network iipv6::/64 in the /etc/exports and invoked with: mountd=YES nfsd=YES nfs_client=YES # not needed normally nfs_server=YES nfsd_flags="-6 -u -t -n 6" in /etc/rc.conf hostname:/usr/sources /usr/sources nfs rw,noauto 0 0 on the clients; no magic there :) > All I did was launch firefox3 and bang, /home was dead. I can run firefox3 without any problems here... wonder what causes it. > So, what's up with NFS? Will it ever be fixed? It's been the same > for years and for many NetBSD releases. Am I supposed to be running > samba between NetBSD systems? What are you refering to? Its working fine here with 5.0 and -current machines mixed. There used to be some issues on NetBSD 1.6 AFAIR but those were solved in 2.0. > Here's how I mount /home in case I'm using wrong options (I have tried > many combinations with no luck): > > server:/home /home nfs rw,-X,-i,-b,-s,-C,-x16 0 0 Arguably i should/could use -s myself too.... With regards, Reinoud
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