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From: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt,comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: NFS problems with AOS 4.3
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Date: 14 Oct 90 05:24:08 GMT
Reply-To: dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
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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

This appeared on the DS3100 only with large files being manipulated
thru the server.  Similarly, on the Mac, large file copies on the Mac
fail because of this.  I haven't yet found just how large the files
have to be to cause this to fail.  Trivial size files (<3K) seem to
work OK, whereas 700K files fail.

Has anyone investigated, more fully characterized and fixed this
problem on the RT?

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