wohler@spam.istc.sri.com (Bill Wohler) (05/17/88)
In article <348@unicom.UUCP> daniel@unicom.UUCP (Dan Smith, not your average Lithuanian...) writes: >I tried copying a 5 meg tar file island->jamaica, and the file >got corrupted. betcha your console said NFS write error number 60. i have see this occur, even on lightly loaded systems, while copying files over 1.5M. the solution is to do all your heavy disk i/o on the server, or if this is not possible, bump up your NFS timeout from the default of 7 to something like 20 or so (which our lispers and prologers have to use with their huge save states). a sample line in /etc/fstab may look like: server:/usr/dir /usr/dir nfs rw,soft,bg,timeo=20 0 0 --bw