Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 May 2002 12:49:01 +0200 | From | Sverker Wiberg <> | Subject | Re: PROBLEM: knfsd misses occasional writes |
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Neil Brown wrote: > > On Wednesday May 15, Sverker.Wiberg@uab.ericsson.se wrote: > > > > Hello everyone, > > > > When copying lots of small files from multiple NFS clients to a kNFSd > > filesystem (i.e. doing backup of a cluster), exported with `sync', I > > find that some few files (1 out of 1000) were silently truncated to zero ^^^^^^^^ no errors reported
> > size when checking locally with `ls' (the clients reported total > > success). With `asynch' instead, all files were correctly copied. > > How are you mounting the file systems on the clients? > The symptoms sound exactly like you are using "soft" mounts. "soft" > is a very bad mount option. Use "hard". > > If you aren't using "soft", let me know and I will look harder.
Errrm, I am using "soft" mounts, as I (we) want the clients to survive server restarts. But shouldn't those timeouts become errors over at the clients?
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