Re: [BUG] 2.4.21: NFS copy produces I/O errors

Felipe Alfaro Solana (felipe_alfaro@linuxmail.org)
17 Jun 2003 08:59:19 +0200


On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 00:04, Ole Marggraf wrote:
> > > By the way, are you using the "soft" option to mount the NFS volumes
> >
> > Yes, forgot to mention... But its quite clear from the error message.
> >
> > Mount options are rw,soft,bw,rsize=8192,wsize=8192.
>
> Ok, correction. (I should go home and get some sleep...)
> rsize=8192,wsize=8192 were not set in the original testing setup, I had
> the defaults there (1024 both). The amount of bytes written till the I/O
> error gets up does scale with that option.

Please, don't use the "soft" option. Instead, use "hard" as there are
problems with the former. I had the same problems with I/O errors. Trond
told me to stick with "hard" at the moment.

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