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Kurt Nowak
Apr 16, 2012, 2:59:54 PM4/16/12
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Hey guys...
So I installed Apollo NFS v4.1 on my OS 10.4. The installation and setup went well (I think...) and I am able to nfs mount the Apollo from both my Solaris boxes (Solaris 8 and 10) as well as with a Sparc running OpenBSD....No problems there - read/writes, and permission changes, etc all work fine... The problem lies when I try to go the other way and mount NFS shares on Solaris and OpenBSD from the Apollo. Here is the basic scenario:
Apollo: machine name: chicago
Sparc 20: machine name: berkeley
from the Apollo (set up a mount point /chicago)
mount -t nfs berkeley:/usr/chicago /chicago
...mount executes fine...
But when I try to write a file to the foreign nfs file system, eg "touch test" it just hangs...eventually an hour later or so, it completes. When I list the file with just 'ls' i can see the file but when i do an ls -al, it hangs again. I dont know whats going on...Perhaps it has do do with ACLs. Both machines have the same user account and unix ID that I am using to write to the share. However, I still need to check to see if the root unix IDs match... Anyone know what I might be missing? I seem to have exhausted my ideas... All the appropriate daemons are running...portmap, nfs, rpc.mountd, tcpd, etc...I set up the rc.nfs file to the defaults. It seems like an issue with the nfs client but the server is fine...
Any ideas I should check for?
My whole idea behind this exersize is to see if I can create an AA on a remote nfs mount point to solve the disk space shortage problem. :)
I read through the Apollo Archive...There is NFS info, but there is no information on mounting a foreign machine... Only mounting the Apollo's shares. :(
-Kurt
So I installed Apollo NFS v4.1 on my OS 10.4. The installation and setup went well (I think...) and I am able to nfs mount the Apollo from both my Solaris boxes (Solaris 8 and 10) as well as with a Sparc running OpenBSD....No problems there - read/writes, and permission changes, etc all work fine... The problem lies when I try to go the other way and mount NFS shares on Solaris and OpenBSD from the Apollo. Here is the basic scenario:
Apollo: machine name: chicago
Sparc 20: machine name: berkeley
from the Apollo (set up a mount point /chicago)
mount -t nfs berkeley:/usr/chicago /chicago
...mount executes fine...
But when I try to write a file to the foreign nfs file system, eg "touch test" it just hangs...eventually an hour later or so, it completes. When I list the file with just 'ls' i can see the file but when i do an ls -al, it hangs again. I dont know whats going on...Perhaps it has do do with ACLs. Both machines have the same user account and unix ID that I am using to write to the share. However, I still need to check to see if the root unix IDs match... Anyone know what I might be missing? I seem to have exhausted my ideas... All the appropriate daemons are running...portmap, nfs, rpc.mountd, tcpd, etc...I set up the rc.nfs file to the defaults. It seems like an issue with the nfs client but the server is fine...
Any ideas I should check for?
My whole idea behind this exersize is to see if I can create an AA on a remote nfs mount point to solve the disk space shortage problem. :)
I read through the Apollo Archive...There is NFS info, but there is no information on mounting a foreign machine... Only mounting the Apollo's shares. :(
-Kurt
Lothar Paltins
Apr 16, 2012, 5:13:47 PM4/16/12
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Hi Kurt,
it's me again ;-).
Did you install the latest NFS patches? Just look at the patch release
notes in /install/doc/apollo. Don't know whether they will fix your
problem, but there are some patches for nfs 4.1.
Lothar
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Lothar Paltins lpt...@arcor.de
it's me again ;-).
Did you install the latest NFS patches? Just look at the patch release
notes in /install/doc/apollo. Don't know whether they will fix your
problem, but there are some patches for nfs 4.1.
Lothar
--
Lothar Paltins lpt...@arcor.de
Jim Rees
Apr 17, 2012, 7:55:45 AM4/17/12
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Can you get a pcap? tcpdump -p -s 1500 -w somefile.pcap
Kurt Nowak
Apr 17, 2012, 1:07:04 PM4/17/12
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Kurt Nowak
Apr 17, 2012, 1:04:30 PM4/17/12
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On Tuesday, April 17, 2012 4:55:45 AM UTC-7, Jim Rees wrote:
> Can you get a pcap? tcpdump -p -s 1500 -w somefile.pcap
I did a snoop under solaris but didnt get any chatter between the server and client (apollo) besides the initial command "touch test"... I will try tcpdump under openbsd and report back with the pcap...
> Can you get a pcap? tcpdump -p -s 1500 -w somefile.pcap
Lothar Paltins
Apr 17, 2012, 4:00:57 PM4/17/12
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Kurt Nowak wrote:
> I will have a look at the notes...Are the NFS patches available somewhere?
> I am still running 10.4 w/o the upgrade due to my space limitations. Not
> sure if that would affect anything though.
Didn't you download the patches from me? Patch pd96_m0731 is the latest
> I will have a look at the notes...Are the NFS patches available somewhere?
> I am still running 10.4 w/o the upgrade due to my space limitations. Not
> sure if that would affect anything though.
patch for NFS 4.1 and it should include all previous fixes. It needs
about 1.3 MB disk space in the AA.
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Lothar Paltins lpt...@arcor.de
Jim Rees
Apr 18, 2012, 11:13:51 PM4/18/12
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but not in pcap format. I think wireshark can read a snoop capture.
Kurt Nowak
Apr 19, 2012, 1:19:21 PM4/19/12
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-Kurt
Kurt Nowak
Apr 20, 2012, 8:42:05 PM4/20/12
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On Monday, April 16, 2012 11:59:54 AM UTC-7, Kurt Nowak wrote:
Jim Rees
Apr 22, 2012, 4:56:59 PM4/22/12
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On Apr 20, 8:42 pm, Kurt Nowak <kurt.m.no...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Problem solved!! Apparently not running the /etc/xpager daemon it what causes everything to hang... I couldn't find much information on this "external paging daemon" only that its required for to mount a cdrom on an apollo....Anyone know? Anyway, NFS is now running as expected :)
It's mentioned in the FAQ. Apparently it lets you page from a type
> Problem solved!! Apparently not running the /etc/xpager daemon it what causes everything to hang... I couldn't find much information on this "external paging daemon" only that its required for to mount a cdrom on an apollo....Anyone know? Anyway, NFS is now running as expected :)
manager. It's new in sr10.4.
Lothar Paltins
Apr 23, 2012, 4:26:24 AM4/23/12
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Jim,
do you think, that Kurts plan would work, mounting an AA (/install) over
nfs from a non-Apollo box? You won't have any file types and ACLs.
do you think, that Kurts plan would work, mounting an AA (/install) over
nfs from a non-Apollo box? You won't have any file types and ACLs.
Jim Rees
Apr 23, 2012, 8:49:52 AM4/23/12
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On Apr 23, 4:26 am, Lothar Paltins <lptm...@arcor.de> wrote:
> Jim,
>
> do you think, that Kurts plan would work, mounting an AA (/install) over
> nfs from a non-Apollo box? You won't have any file types and ACLs.
>
I don't know but it's worth a try. Acls aren't a problem, those are
> Jim,
>
> do you think, that Kurts plan would work, mounting an AA (/install) over
> nfs from a non-Apollo box? You won't have any file types and ACLs.
>
set by a post-install script. File types I'm not sure, but the xpager
should increase your chances, since it should allow mapping nfs files.
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