e07@nikhefh.nikhef.nl (Eric Wassenaar) (12/18/89)
If your apollo disks are mounted via nfs by a remote (non-apollo) host, and on this remote host you do an 'ls -l' to an apollo directory containing some very big files, nfs becomes totally inoperational. This is the same sort of case in which a local 'ls -l' also hangs your SR10 machine, as reported in some previous postings. After 45 minutes the situation becomes automatically normal again. This is totally unacceptable. Example: If the apollo // directory is successfully mounted by the remote host on its directory /apollo, you see something like this: total 3464 drwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 4096 Nov 1 22:39 1989 apollo drwxr-xr-x 2 root staff 2048 Oct 24 11:38 1989 bin drwxr-xr-x 2 root staff 7168 Nov 8 21:27 1989 dev drwxr-xr-x 4 root staff 6144 Nov 8 11:08 1989 etc ..... After an 'ls -l /apollo/dn10000/topdir/subdir' you see things like total 68991 ------x-w- 0 2 20 65535 Jan 1 19:12 1970 apollo drwxr-xr-x 2 root staff 2048 Oct 24 11:38 1989 bin drwxr-xr-x 2 root staff 7168 Nov 8 21:27 1989 dev drwxr-xr-x 4 root staff 6144 Nov 8 11:08 1989 etc ..... total 68991 --ws--xr-t -1 -1 65535 Jan 1 19:12 1970 apollo drwxr-xr-x 2 root staff 2048 Oct 24 11:38 1989 bin drwxr-xr-x 2 root staff 7168 Nov 10 15:27 1989 dev drwxr-xr-x 4 root staff 6144 Nov 10 14:04 1989 etc ..... Eric Wassenaar -- Organization: NIKHEF-H, National Institute for Nuclear and High-Energy Physics Address: Kruislaan 409, P.O. Box 41882, 1009 DB Amsterdam, the Netherlands Phone: +31 20 592 0412, Home: +31 20 909449, Telefax: +31 20 592 5155 Internet: e07@nikhef.nl