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From: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt,comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: NFS problems with AOS 4.3
Message-ID: <4457@spdcc.SPDCC.COM>
Date: 14 Oct 90 07:40:09 GMT
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Reply-To: dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
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In article <4456@spdcc.SPDCC.COM> dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com (Steve Dyer) writes:
>I saw this about a year ago when a DECStation 3100 was an NFS client
>of an RT running AOS 4.3 10/88.  Now, I've got a Cayman GatorBox trying
>to use the same RT as an NFS server and the same error appears:
>
>xdr_bytes: bad size FAILED

NFS_MAXDATA was 4096 instead of 8192 in the AOS 4.3 Dec 88 kernel.
Any NFS client talking to an RT server using a wsize greater than
4096 would eventually hit this problem.

End of mystery, and an easy solution.

-- 
Steve Dyer
dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
dyer@arktouros.mit.edu, dyer@hstbme.mit.edu