On Sat, 2004-07-31 at 16:25, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 04:16:29PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> > UDP is prone to *much* weirded behavior than TCP in the face of things
> > like this.  I once had an NFS server and client using UDP.  A had its
> > block size set to 8K, B to 32K.  For some reason the mount succeeded
> 
> Thats NFS weirdness. NFS (especially older Linux NFS) is the problem not
> the UDP layer. UDP is wonderfully bug free in most situations because
> its so simple it forces the bugs up a protocol layer
> 

Yes, it seems like there are two choices at that point - bail, or take a
wild guess as to what you're supposed to do.  I think the mount
succeeded because no one was required to send more than 8K at once. 
IIRC A was BSD/OS 4.x, B was Linux 2.4.x.

Man, that was a weird bug.  Took me *days* to pin down, because it would
mysteriously disappear as long as you only dealt with files < 8K.  Which
as it turns out is almost all of them except the password file.

Lee

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