[Gllug] NFS problem (now this is REALLY p*****g me off!)

[Daniel Andersson]

as a lot of people have said, nfs under linux sucks, and i tend to agree.

tried a lot of "network fs'es" a while ago and my conclusion was that samba
was the best on
fastest, most reliable and it just worked really well :)

can't help you fixing your problem, can only recommend using something else
;)

my 2p

/ d

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dylan" <dylan at dylan.me.uk>
To: <suse-linux-e at suse.com>; <gllug at linux.co.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 8:23 PM
Subject: [Gllug] NFS problem (now this is REALLY p*****g me off!)


> I have just re-installed my home LAN from scratch to fix (rather that
> understand) the following:
>
> After a while (a month or so) my server (which is running SuSE 8.0 with
> "Default without office" but runlevel set to 3) seriously slows down when
> serving NFS, but provides all other n/work services (well, ping, NIS
mainly,
> but rusers occasionally) with no problem. Very shortly after that, it
becomes
> impossible to mount NFS shares. The errors seem to be random - I get "no
> route to host" (accessing by IP and ping is fine); "RPC - permission
denied"
> and "RPC timeout" about evenly on any of four clients. Get this - mount
fails
> on boot or using autofs, but some (not all) manual mounts work (whether I
use
> mount -a, mount <local directory> or a full mount stmnt!)
>
> Once the slowdown or mount failure is evident on one client, it
spontaneously
> appears on EVERY client.
>
> I figured I might have a rootkit / trojan etc. So I took away the data
drives
> and rebuilt everything (re-partitioning and formating every drive) from
DVD
> bootdisk.
>
> Now, three days later, same problem arises.
>
> I'm lost, any ideas as to where to look (and what the information I may
find
> means) would be most appreciated!
>
> If someone wants/can come and look at what's happening, even?
>
> Dylan
>
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