ssi@ziggy.EDU (Ssi) (07/25/90)
I have a Sun 3/160 serving 5 diskless clients.
We get a fair share of `NFS server not responding..'
messages. Sometimes when a user writes a large file
(250000 bytes) from `vi' the file gets trashed.
This seems to happen when the write encounters an
NFS error. The last time this happened there where
several `spurious level 4 interrupt' errors on the server
console, I don't recall seeing these on the other
occasions.
I'm running SunOS 3.5
Greg Ripp ssi@ziggy.edujeff@onion.pdx.com (Jeff Beadles) (07/28/90)
In article <1384@ziggy.EDU> ssi@ziggy.EDU (Ssi) writes: > I have a Sun 3/160 serving 5 diskless clients. >We get a fair share of `NFS server not responding..' >messages. Sometimes when a user writes a large file >(250000 bytes) from `vi' the file gets trashed. >This seems to happen when the write encounters an >NFS error. The last time this happened there where >several `spurious level 4 interrupt' errors on the server >console, I don't recall seeing these on the other >occasions. > I'm running SunOS 3.5 > > Greg Ripp ssi@ziggy.edu Using softmounted NFS filesystems, yes it's possible. The mount can timeout with a soft mount. Using hard mounted filesystems, it shouldn't happen. (If the 'intr' option is set and the user hits their interupt character (usually ^C or DEL) then all bets are off. :-) -Jeff -- Jeff Beadles jeff@onion.pdx.com jeff@quark.wv.tek.com