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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!werple.apana.org.au!otis.apana.org.au!serval.net.wsu.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!oracle.pnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!lll-winken.llnl.gov!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!EU.net!ieunet!news.ieunet.ie!jkh From: jkh@whisker.hubbard.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0 and NFS - big woes Date: 30 Nov 1994 00:01:54 GMT Organization: Jordan Hubbard Lines: 52 Message-ID: <JKH.94Nov30000154@whisker.hubbard.ie> References: <3been5$rp3@franklin.cc.utas.edu.au> <3bfod2$q35@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: whisker.hubbard.ie In-reply-to: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu's message of 29 Nov 1994 17:29:06 GMT In article <3bfod2$q35@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu (Bill Paul) writes: *BUT* mount and mount_nfs do not understand the same options! Ah HA!! Bill! Hero! I didn't realize this (hangs head in shame). Ok, as Inspector Clouseau used to say: "Now we're getting somewhere!" I have changed the script to suggest the following: DEFAULT_VALUE="${NFS_OPTIONS}" if input \ "Do you wish to specify any options to NFS? If you're installing from a Sun 4.1.x system, you may wish to specify \`-P' to send NFS requests over a privileged port (use this if you get nasty \`\`credential too weak'' errors from the server). When using a slow ethernet card or network link, \`-r 1024 -w 1024' may also prove helpful. Options, if any, should be separated by commas."; then if [ "${ANSWER}" != "" ]; then NFS_OPTIONS="${ANSWER}" fi fi I've checked and both `-P' and `-r 1024 -w 1024' seem to be valid arguments to mount_nfs. This will be in the updated floppy tarballs I'll be rolling tomorrow morning. into the mount command!" And then they happily dropped it onto the FTP site without testing it. Yeah yeah yeah. I'd been up for three days, ok? :-) 1) When prompted for server/filesystem to be mounted, type in the following: -P server:/fs Hopefully all of this will be somewhat more straight-forward in the new 2.0 floppies. This is another BSD4.4-ism: the syntax for specifying block sizes has changed. The old syntax used to look like this: rsize=4096, wsize=4096. This no longer works in FreeBSD 2.0. More on that in a second. This and the non-priviledged-port-by-default are 4.4BSD'isms, just FYI. Thanks, Bill, for this excellent synopsis of the problem. Please post it weekly.. :-) Oh yeah, can I stick it in the FAQ? Jordan -- Jordan K. Hubbard FreeBSD core team Clams are your friends