Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Sep 1999 17:25:26 +0200 (MET_DST) | From | David Weinehall <> | Subject | Re: NFS corruption revisited |
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On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Jimmie Mayfield wrote:
> > Hi all. Not to beat a dead horse, but I'm also running into problems with > NFS corruption while compiling programs in an NFS-mounted directory. > The corruption does not occur when building locally. > > Setup: > NFS server: AIX 4.3.2 box (PPC 604e) with the most recent > NFS server patches.
AIX licenses Sun's NFS-server, and Sun's NFS-server is buggy. There are patches available for Solaris, but not for AIX.
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> 2) it occurs at a page boundary. in other cases, I think I've seen the > corruption occur a few bytes before the boundary.
The corruption is caused by the fact that Sun's NFS-server ignores the packet-size field and uses the actual size of the packet instead.
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> 4) Changing NFS read/write block sizes didn't solve the problem
Hmmmm. It seems to work for us (we're experiencing the same problems here) if you use 1k or 2k blocksize.
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/David
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