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From: alm@netcom.com (Andrew Moore)
Subject: cp/cpio over NFS unreliable? [386BSD]
Message-ID: <1992Nov12.085512.8850@netcom.com>
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 08:55:12 GMT
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cp'ing sbin/* across two NFS-mounted 386BSD systems with SMC
WD8003EP adapters yields errors like:

cp: ./inetd: No such file or directory

and though most files copy okay, the files for which an error is
reported get truncated.  Worse, when using cpio -p, truncation occurs,
but no errors are reported!  

Nathan Williams pointed out that the wsize and rsize parameters must be
set if the RAM buffer is less than 8K.  But this shouldn't be a problem
with the SMC which uses an 8K buffer.  Are there other parameters I
should look at?  Explanations? Thanks.
-Andrew Moore <alm@netcom.com>