christos@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Christos S. Zoulas) (05/23/91)
Hello, I have managed to compile most of the rpc and rpcsvc 4.0 stuff successfully on our 400s's but I am having a couple of problems with rpc.rexd, and in general with any daemon that tries to run execve() or chdir() on an nfs directory. For example execve, it seems to hang forever if it tries to execute an NFS directory, or randomly if the nfs path is too deep. If I stat each path component before I finally execute execve it works fine. [Painful, but at least there is a workaround] Chdir is worse. I cannot seem to be able to change deeper than two levels of nfs mounted directories! Are these known problems with NFS 2.1? Is there some magic environment variable the executable or some magic system call the daemon must do for these systems calls to work properly? [I set all the ones mentioned in environ(7)...] Other than that, I've gotten rpc.rstatd, rpc.rusersd and the 4.3BSD+NFS inetd to work perfectly... Of-course with irritating slowness of NFS, I am really starting to question if it is worth all the trouble. It feels that the remote filesystems are made out of floppies :( Is 2.2 any better? Thanks in advance, christos -- Christos Zoulas | 389 Theory Center, Electrical Engineering, christos@ee.cornell.edu | Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853. christos@crnlee.bitnet | Phone: (607) 255 0302, Fax: (607) 255 9072
mmuegel@fwhnm02.fwrdc.rtsg.mot.com (Michael S. Muegel) (05/23/91)
In article <1991May23.055131.14273@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> christos@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Christos S. Zoulas) writes: > >Of-course with irritating slowness of NFS, I am really starting to question >if it is worth all the trouble. It feels that the remote filesystems are >made out of floppies :( Is 2.2 any better? NFS2.2 is much better and I would highly recommend it. I would not say it is the best NFS out there (Not by a long shot) but it is a heck of a lot better than 2.1. -Mike -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Mike Muegel | Internet: mmuegel@mot.com | | Software Tools Group | UUCP: uunet!motcid!muegel | | Fort Worth Research & Development Center | Voice: (817) 232-6129 | | Radio Telephone and Systems Group | ... My opinions are surely not | | Motorola, Inc. | shared by Motorola :-& | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+