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I am running a Linux server (kernel 2.4.18 with XFS support) that uses
NFS to connect to a back-end NAS device running Windows 2000 and MS
Services for UNIX.

I mount the NFS partition through /etc/fstab with the options
rw,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,async,tcp,hard,intr

I am using NFS as backend storage for a Lotus Domino server, and after
both the NAS device and Linux box are rebooted everything works great
(if a little slowly).

The Domino server can access some pretty huge (20Gb) databases across
the NFS link and all is dandy.

However, after a period of time all seems to go wrong and the Domino
server returns error saying:

The database is in use by another user...blah blah blah.

The logging on the NAS device notes that an attempt to lock the
database file in question failed (no more logging than that).

All I can do is restart the NFS service on the NAS device and and the
re-mount on the client.

Does anyone have any advice on what the problem might be here?

TIA

Mike

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Quote:> All I can do is restart the NFS service on the NAS device and and the
> re-mount on the client.

> Does anyone have any advice on what the problem might be here?

Remember some different problems with those M$ *nix services, after a
while we tried samba and everything was fine, it simply works;)

Good luck

Michael Heiming
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Remove +SIGNS, if you expect an answer

I didn't think Samba supported large files...

Does anyone else have any experience with getting SFU to work? I am
using version 2 I think.

If you have to restart the NFS server, then the problem should be with the
server. Restarting the nfs client on the linux box afterwards is just a
consequence. I personally would never trust in MS-nix-services - they do
not really want it to function.
Theo

Samba does this AFAIK for ages.

Quote:> Does anyone else have any experience with getting SFU to work? I am
> using version 2 I think.

In short, it's a piece of crap, never saw such a piece of buggy sw. We
ran from one problem to another, until we just stopped using it.

Michael Heiming
--
Remove +SIGNS, if you expect an answer

Are you talking about smbfs?
I tried that first and files over 2Gb were just not accesible...

Quote:> > Does anyone else have any experience with getting SFU to work? I am
> > using version 2 I think.

> In short, it's a piece of crap, never saw such a piece of buggy sw. We
> ran from one problem to another, until we just stopped using it.

I am in agreement on that!

Thanks for your help