josevela@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx (Jose Angel Vela Avila) (01/22/91)
We have a tremendous problem with our RS/6000 ag!
The problem is NFS... It doesn't work !
We try to mount a directory from a Vax 6310 and it works.. but if we try
to write or read from it.... CRASH !! everything hangs !!:
Then we CAN'T umount the directory..
What's grong ??
Also, how we can do for mount a directory in the RS from a Vax 6310 ??
We can't do that still.... :-(
Thanks in advance !!
Jose A. Vela A.
josevela@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mxscott@prism.gatech.EDU (Scott Holt) (01/22/91)
In article <2831@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx> josevela@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx (Jose Angel Vela Avila) writes: > > We try to mount a directory from a Vax 6310 and it works.. but if we try > to write or read from it.... CRASH !! everything hangs !!: > Then we CAN'T umount the directory.. > > What's grong ?? > > Also, how we can do for mount a directory in the RS from a Vax 6310 ?? > We can't do that still.... :-( > I know this sounds like a smartass response, but, did you specificly start NFS (i.e. smit nfsconfigure)? I had the exact same thing happen to me a while back - I could mount the file systems and even list directories. But, any attempt to access a file hung the system. After beating my head against the console for a while, I noticed that no biod processes were running on the system. Though I had gone to the trouble of changing the number of biod and nfsd processes on the machine, they apparently are not started unless you explicitly "Start NFS" (aka /usr/etc/mknfs). The mount works simply because mountd was running on the server whose directory you tried to mount. Apparently, "mount" does not required that biod processes be running. It will make the appropriate requests of the remote server's mountd. - Scott -- This is my signature. There are many like it, but this one is mine. Scott Holt Internet: scott@prism.gatech.edu Georgia Tech UUCP: ..!gatech!prism!scott Office of Information Technology, Technical Services
shepler@gumby.austin.ibm.com ( Spencer Shepler ) (01/22/91)
> We have a tremendous problem with our RS/6000 ag! > > The problem is NFS... It doesn't work ! Sure it does. :-) > We try to mount a directory from a Vax 6310 and it works.. but if we try > to write or read from it.... CRASH !! everything hangs !!: > Then we CAN'T umount the directory.. > > What's grong ?? No biod daemons. > Thanks in advance !! > > Jose A. Vela A. > josevela@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx To have the biod daemon each time the system boots use the /usr/etc/mknfs -B command. It places an entry in /etc/inittab so that the /etc/rc.nfs script is executed on system boot. Spencer -- Comments are my own. If they are someone else's, sorry about that. External: shepler@bach.austin.ibm.com Or: uunet!cs.utexas.edu!ibmaus!auschs!gumby.austin.ibm.com!shepler Internal: shepler@gumby.austin.ibm.com VNET: SHEPLER at AUSVMQ T/L: 793-4368