Bryan, OK, according to ethereal I'm only getting NFS V2 across the bus. Here's the way my two machines are set up:
The new 250GB storage machine - 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 <*> NFS file system support [ ] Provide NFSv3 client support [ ] Provide NFSv4 client support (EXPERIMENTAL) [ ] Allow direct I/O on NFS files (EXPERIMENTAL) <*> NFS server support [*] Provide NFSv3 server support [ ] Provide NFSv4 server support (EXPERIMENTAL) [*] Provide NFS server over TCP support The mythbackend machine which is the NFS client: <*> NFS file system support [*] Provide NFSv3 client support [ ] Provide NFSv4 client support (EXPERIMENTAL) [ ] Allow direct I/O on NFS files (EXPERIMENTAL) <M> NFS server support [*] Provide NFSv3 server support [ ] Provide NFSv4 server support (EXPERIMENTAL) [*] Provide NFS server over TCP support I guess V2 support makes sense as that kernel only has V2 compiled in. Shall I jump to V3 or V4? thanks, Mark On 8/2/05, Bryan Whitehead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > On 8/2/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
