Re: NFS

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From: Dave Hodgkinson
Subject: Re: NFS
Date: 14:54 on 31 Jul 2006
On 31 Jul 2006, at 14:51, Nicholas Clark wrote:

> Soooooo, NFS mounting the dev server on a Macbook worked just fine  
> in LA.
> I could load things, edit things, save things, and generally get  
> work done.
>
> Yet once the Macbook returns to blighty (with the server still in  
> LA) and
> the fucking thing doesn't work.
>
> No, not in any nice honest refuse to mount type of way. No, in an  
> evil tempting
> "I'll pretend that you're going to work" way that snares you into  
> thinking
> that it's just something a little wrong and fairly soon you'll have it
> working perfectly.
>
> But can I? Can I hell. Somewhere, somehow, whenever I try to write  
> a file
> larger than 1K it's crapping out. ktrace on the Mac doesn't tell me  
> anything.
> And the server isn't talking to /var/log/messages.

I warned you. Drop your NFS block size to 512 bytes or 1k. Or do NFS  
over TCP.


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