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I have a Solaris 8 Sparc system and Linux RedHat 9 intel system. I
want to mount a directory off of the Solaris box on the Linux box, but
I'm having a slight problem that I can't seem to solve (or find by
googling)

Here's the setup on the Solaris box, /etc/dfs/dfstab:

share       \
        -F nfs \
        -o rw,root \
        -d "Home dir"   /export/home/staff

And on the Linux box, /etc/fstab:

my.nfs.host.name:/export/home/staff    /export/home/staff  nfs
rw,rsize=8192,wsize=8192    0   0

The directory mounts OK, but as soon as I try to list the contents (of
the Solaris mount on Linux box) the NFS mount hangs, and I get
occasional "NFS not responding / retrying" messages.

Now, if I change the rsize and wsize on the Linux box to 1024
everything works, but I'd like to take advantage of a bigger byte
read/write size. What could be the problem here, an incompatability?
My first guess was a network interface problem, but I verified both
inferfaces are running 100mb full-duplex, as they should be.

The RedHat 9 Linux kernel is 2.4.20-8, default build.

TIA
Monte

Quote:> Hi,
> I have a Solaris 8 Sparc system and Linux RedHat 9 intel system. I
> want to mount a directory off of the Solaris box on the Linux box, but
> I'm having a slight problem that I can't seem to solve (or find by
> googling)
> Here's the setup on the Solaris box, /etc/dfs/dfstab:
> share       \
>         -F nfs \
>         -o rw,root \
>         -d "Home dir"   /export/home/staff
> And on the Linux box, /etc/fstab:
> my.nfs.host.name:/export/home/staff    /export/home/staff  nfs
> rw,rsize=8192,wsize=8192    0   0
> The directory mounts OK, but as soon as I try to list the contents (of
> the Solaris mount on Linux box) the NFS mount hangs, and I get
> occasional "NFS not responding / retrying" messages.
> Now, if I change the rsize and wsize on the Linux box to 1024
> everything works, but I'd like to take advantage of a bigger byte
> read/write size. What could be the problem here, an incompatability?
> My first guess was a network interface problem, but I verified both
> inferfaces are running 100mb full-duplex, as they should be.
> The RedHat 9 Linux kernel is 2.4.20-8, default build.

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Akop Pogosian

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