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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!csus.edu!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: [NETBSD-0.8] NFS problem (HELP!) Message-ID: <hastyCAs2Fx.2zE@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <CArsxL.BI1@rot.qc.ca> Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1993 15:16:44 GMT Lines: 34 In article <CArsxL.BI1@rot.qc.ca> captain@rot.qc.ca (Andrew Webster) writes: >I'm having some difficulty with NFS. >Here is the situation: >System A consists of NETBSD-0.8 on 386/33 with 245MB IDE >System B consists of ISC SYS V 3.0 on 486/33 with 660MB SCSI > >When mounting system B's directories onto System A, occasionally, >when system A creates a file, the directory bit gets turned on, thus making >the file inaccessible. Conversely, when system B creates a directory, >sometimes the directory bit gets turned off (From system A's point of view) >even though on system B, it is a directory. > >Unmounting, and re-mounting the file system corrects the problem, but it is >inefficient to have to keep doing that. > >The problem is more prevelant when doing lots of file I/O, for example, >extracting a big tar file. > >Since Sytem B has been connected to other AT&T System V boxes, and it had >no problem with NFS, I suspect the culprit may be NETBSD. > >Has anyone had a similar problem? >Is there a patch? > Well, I use David Greeman new ed0 (ethernet driver) and it eliminated most of my problems including system crashes over NFS. Amancio -- This message brought to you by the letters X and S and the number 3 Amancio Hasty | Home: (415) 495-3046 | ftp-site depository of all my work: e-mail hasty@netcom.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/incoming