From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E05nH-0002RO-Qe for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 02 Aug 2005 23:03:32 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j72N2Eag013082; Tue, 2 Aug 2005 23:02:14 GMT Received: from megahappy.net (82-182-31-216.tierzero.net [216.31.182.82] (may be forged)) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j72Mtn3H014448 for ; Tue, 2 Aug 2005 22:55:49 GMT Received: by megahappy.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9ED5F4C018; Tue, 2 Aug 2005 15:54:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by megahappy.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 847B96800B for ; Tue, 2 Aug 2005 15:54:23 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 15:54:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Bryan Whitehead To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] NFS configuration (tcp/ip & MythTV) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <5bdc1c8b050802083366313219@mail.gmail.com> <558b73fb050802084232c3c9@mail.gmail.com> <42EF98BD.1060607@asmallpond.org> <5bdc1c8b05080209431179d840@mail.gmail.com> <558b73fb0508021056ca7caa1@mail.gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b0508021113630652da@mail.gmail.com> <558b73fb05080211481efdec27@mail.gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b0508021206103e9f1c@mail.gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b0508021402490207ae@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Archives-Salt: f89534b5-bb9f-4292-bb69-f0cba8d9723d X-Archives-Hash: e7c814104f425e90146e714d7de2754a BTW, it could be you are using NFS v2 which is ONLY 32bit so you have the 4gb filesize limit. run "nftstat -s" (on the server) and "nfsstat -c" (on the client) to see what version of NFS you are using (note: what version of NFS you are using is not related to the transport - udp/tcp). I use bigger than 4GB files on Linux server/client all the time to move DVD iso's to machines with better burners... you are running the 2.6 kernel? On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Bryan Whitehead wrote: > What filesystem are you exporting over NFS? > > On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> On 8/2/05, Matthew Cline wrote: >> > On 8/2/05, Mark Knecht wrote: >> > > >> > > but how do I know it's being used? And how do I know that the rsize >> > > option is being used? >> > > >> > > Thanks, >> > > Mark >> > >> > Could you watch the traffic between the two using something like >> > ethereal? This should tell you which protocol is being used. >> > >> >> Hi Matt, >> OK, ethereal was pretty easy to use, and it does indeed show that >> I'm using TCP for packat transfer. I see a proto=NFS packet followed >> by a number of TCP packets with sizes of 8K bytes so this seems to >> verify that both options I was looking for ar indeed working. >> >> Thanks! >> >> Unfortunately this means I'm no closer to the root cause of my real >> problem which is mythbackend shutting down without warning. It >> happened again just a few minutes ago. This all started happening >> after I brought this NFS mount on-line as storage for the mythbackend >> server. I suppose I'll have to go back to the reduced storage option >> (15 hours instead of 120 hours) and make sure that it's really this >> disk/PC/network connection. >> >> Thanks again for your help. >> >> Cheers, >> Mark >> >> > > -- Bryan Whitehead Email:driver@megahappy.net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list