Re: NFS problems with 2.5.53 on server

[Florin Iucha]

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On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 11:51:08AM -0500, David Ford wrote:
> Actually I have a bit more information.  Using both 2.5.5x (on NFS=20
> server) and 2.4.19/20, I get in dmesg, "kernel: RPC: garbage, exit EIO"=
=20
> and df reports zeroes across the board for NFS volumes.
>=20
> Nothing fixes it, the NFS server has to be rebooted.  During one of=20
> these moments, I also noticed the NFS server had a non-fatal OOPS w/=20
> rpc.kmountd.  Unfortunately I didn't save the OOPS.

This must be another problem, because I do not see the same problems as
you are seeing. There are no "RPC: garbage" messages and=20
   florin@bear:~$ df | grep archives
   beaver:/var/cache/apt/archives 995104    257560    737544  26% /var/auto=
fs/iucha/archives
shows the proper values.

> >I have:
> >   bear:/var/cache/apt/archives# mount | grep archives
> >   beaver:/var/cache/apt/archives on /var/autofs/iucha/archives type nfs=
 (rw,rsize=3D8192,wsize=3D8192,addr=3D10.10.0.10)
> >Then:
> >   bear:/var/cache/apt/archives# ls vim*
> >   ls: vim*: No such file or directory
> >   bear:/var/cache/apt/archives# find . -name vim\*
> >   bear:/var/cache/apt/archives# md5sum vim-gtk_1%3a6.1-266+1_i386.deb
> >   11a6d8dbfb51688d7ac275562540c327  vim-gtk_1%3a6.1-266+1_i386.deb
> >   bear:/var/cache/apt/archives#=20
> >
> >Note that /var/cache/apt/archives is a symbolic link to /var/autofs/iuch=
a/archives.
> >
> >So "ls", "find" cannot find the name for the file, but if I know the
> >file I can open it just fine.
> >
> >On the client:
> >   bear:/var/cache/apt/archives# ls | wc -l
> >   91
> >On the server:
> >   florin@beaver:/var/cache/apt/archives$ ls | wc -l
> >   441
> >
> >Server has 2.5.53 with no other patches. For clients I have used both 2.=
5.53
> >and 2.4.19 (Debian package).

Cheers,
florin
--=20

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