Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!swanee!juno!robert From: robert@juno.ee.uwa.oz (Roberto Togneri) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: PC-NFS problems Summary: PC-NFS problems Keywords: Suns PC-NFS NFS Message-ID: Date: 6 Sep 90 00:47:13 GMT Sender: news@swanee.ee.uwa.oz Organization: Elec Eng, Univ of Western Australia Lines: 35 Our setup consists of three IRISes running 3.1d and NFS. Connected to these are PC's running PC-NFS 3.0.1. The IRISes are cross-mounted via NFS and the PC's mount each root filesystem of the IRISes on separate drive letters. A peculiar problem has always existed which I don't recall has been mentioned in this newwgroup. The problem occurs when attempting to copy or even do a directory listing of the mounted IRIS filesystems on the PC's. Every now and then the copy command will hang on a particular file. The rcp will sometimes work on this file but will sometimes hang as well. Doing ls or dir of some IRIS directories will also hang. The problem in this case usually seems to be the number of files on the directory; removing a file or creating one solves the problem! Needless to say this also creates problems when using the IRIS printer from PC-NFS. The net print command will hang on some files because they can't be copied to the spool area. Has anybody come across these problems? Another problem which I think has been covered is the incompatibility of NFS between IRISes and Suns. We can mount a Sun filesystem happily enough but the Suns can't mount the IRIS filesystems. The mount program returns a version mismatch diagnostic. Is this correct? Any solutions? Is this problem related to the above problem? The above is very annoying because one of the Suns has an Exabyte drive and if the IRIS filesystems were mounted then they could be archived easily using dump. Normally this is not necessary since a remote dump can be performed but a dump/restore facility does not seem to be provided with the IRISes. Dr. Roberto Togneri Dept. of EE Engineering The University of Western Australia