[Klug-general] Tweaking NFS parameters

[MacGyveR]

On Thursday 16 Jul 2009, Alan @ COMM-TECH wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Am having some nfs server/client issues and wonder if anyone can help.
>
> Ubuntu Server 8.04, 10 workstations running 9.04
>
> In summary, the server exposes /home via nfs, when a user logs into the
> workstation, they are authenticated via ldap on the server and their
> home directory is automounted. Full roaming desktop/profiles are the
> result, and a good one.
>
> All works wonderfully apart from:
>
> - User profiles in Firefox keeps getting corrupted daily. Need a restore
> of yesterdays backup to recover.
> - Evolution stores get messed up when IMAP mailboxes get too large
> - Openoffice is crashing and going into perpetual fire recovery cycles,
> requiring a nuking and recovery of home/.openoffice.org* folders
>
> Seems like it's pointing to an unstable nfs. Does anyone know what
> mistakes I am making in the nfs parameters.
>
> WORKSTATIONS SETUP:
>
> /etc/auto.master:
>
>   /home /etc/auto.home
>
> /etc/auto.home
>
>   10.1.1.2:/home/&/profile
> hard,intr,wsize=8192,rsize=8192,time=10,nfsvers=3 ^^^
>   (that's on one line)
>
> SERVER SETUP:
>
> /etc/exports:
>
>   /home 10.1.1.0/24(rw,sync,no_subtree_check)
>
> One other thing, nfsstat on the workstations shows stats for V3, nfsstat
> on the server shows statss for V2 AND V3. Can't see why server runs both...
>
> Any ideas appreciated!
>
> Alan
>
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try running nfs over tcp and see if that helps?