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Konstantin (Kastus) Shchuka

2 Apr 2001 2 Apr '01

22:20

Hi, <rant mode> I lost whole Friday trying to upgrade my 7.0 box at work to 7.1. Finally I gave up understanding that the only way to upgrade is do a clean install. I would appreciate if that were written in BIG letters somewhere on the box. I did a clean install, chose kernel 2.4 as a default, system booted. Initially I didn't pay attention to the message: lockdsvc: Invalid argument exit status of /usr/sbin/rpc.lockd: 1 from rcnfs script. Later I discovered that I cannot copy a big (19Megs) file to a nfs-mounted disk from Solaris. There were no problems earlier when I was using SuSE 7.0. I can copy a small file, I can create directories, but as soon as I try to copy something big, I receive input/output error. I installed then 2.4.2 kernel form SuSE, and nfsutils-0.2.1-20. Nothing changed, same hanging and error while copying big file over nfs. Is this a feature of 7.1 with 2.4.2 kernel that NFS should not work? -Kastus

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Konstantin (Kastus) Shchuka

2 Apr 2 Apr

23:12

New subject: [SLE] NFS with kernel 2.4.2 -- is it supposed to work?

Following my own post: I installed kernel 2.2.18 and nfs works with it. No error messages from rcnfs script, files of 40+ Megs size just fly to Solaris box. Given this, I have a great suspicion that 2.4 kernel is not ready for use. -Kastus On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 03:20:33PM -0700, Konstantin (Kastus) Shchuka wrote:

...

Hi,

<rant mode>

I lost whole Friday trying to upgrade my 7.0 box at work to 7.1. Finally I gave up understanding that the only way to upgrade is do a clean install.

I would appreciate if that were written in BIG letters somewhere on the box.

I did a clean install, chose kernel 2.4 as a default, system booted.

Initially I didn't pay attention to the message:

lockdsvc: Invalid argument exit status of /usr/sbin/rpc.lockd: 1

from rcnfs script.

Later I discovered that I cannot copy a big (19Megs) file to a nfs-mounted disk from Solaris. There were no problems earlier when I was using SuSE 7.0.

I can copy a small file, I can create directories, but as soon as I try to copy something big, I receive input/output error.

I installed then 2.4.2 kernel form SuSE, and nfsutils-0.2.1-20. Nothing changed, same hanging and error while copying big file over nfs.

Is this a feature of 7.1 with 2.4.2 kernel that NFS should not work?

-Kastus

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Avi Schwartz

3 Apr 3 Apr

00:37

New subject: [SLE] NFS with kernel 2.4.2 -- is it supposed to work?

Unlike what other are saying, 2.4.2. is ready for prime time. I am attaching a mail message I sent this list last week regarding this problem. Is show how to fix it. The problem is with the script that starts NFS under the 2.4.X kernels: When starting up the nfsserver under Kernel 2.4.2 I get the error message lockdsvc : invalid argument. Searching the Internet (thanks Google!), I found some messages in the linux-kernel mailing list that there is no need to start rpc.lockd from the init scripts any more when using rhe 2.4.X kernels as it is loaded automatically on mount. I commented out these line from /etc/rc.d/nfsserver: checkproc -n lockd || \ /usr/sbin/rpc.lockd and restarted the NFS server. The error is gone and so far everything seems to work. Avi --On Monday, April 02, 2001 15:20:33 -0700 "Konstantin (Kastus) Shchuka" wrote:

...

Hi,

<rant mode>

I lost whole Friday trying to upgrade my 7.0 box at work to 7.1. Finally I gave up understanding that the only way to upgrade is do a clean install.

I would appreciate if that were written in BIG letters somewhere on the box.

I did a clean install, chose kernel 2.4 as a default, system booted.

Initially I didn't pay attention to the message:

lockdsvc: Invalid argument exit status of /usr/sbin/rpc.lockd: 1

from rcnfs script.

Later I discovered that I cannot copy a big (19Megs) file to a nfs-mounted disk from Solaris. There were no problems earlier when I was using SuSE 7.0.

I can copy a small file, I can create directories, but as soon as I try to copy something big, I receive input/output error.

I installed then 2.4.2 kernel form SuSE, and nfsutils-0.2.1-20. Nothing changed, same hanging and error while copying big file over nfs.

Is this a feature of 7.1 with 2.4.2 kernel that NFS should not work?

-Kastus

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Konstantin (Kastus) Shchuka

01:28

New subject: [SLE] NFS with kernel 2.4.2 -- is it supposed to work?

Avi, You are right about fixing lockd under 2.4.2 but you are wrong stating that 2.4.2 is ready for prime time. NFS client in 2.4.2 has serious problems. I mount an NFS exported share from Solaris 2.7 onto my 7.1 system. Everything is fine when reading from NFS. When I try to copy a big (20+ Megs) file to NFS the cp command hangs and then spits input/output error message. Nothing gets copied. I reboot my Linux box into 2.2.18 kernel and repeat the same cp command. File gets copied. That means 2.4.2 kernel is ready for prime time with NFS for read-only. If that's the definition of prime time, let it be so... Could anybody on the list repeat this test, writing a big file to nfs-mounted disk using SuSE stock kernel 2.4.2? Thanks, -Kastus On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 07:37:16PM -0500, Avi Schwartz wrote:

...

Unlike what other are saying, 2.4.2. is ready for prime time. I am attaching a mail message I sent this list last week regarding this problem. Is show how to fix it. The problem is with the script that starts NFS under the 2.4.X kernels:

When starting up the nfsserver under Kernel 2.4.2 I get the error message lockdsvc : invalid argument. Searching the Internet (thanks Google!), I found some messages in the linux-kernel mailing list that there is no need to start rpc.lockd from the init scripts any more when using rhe 2.4.X kernels as it is loaded automatically on mount. I commented out these line from /etc/rc.d/nfsserver:

checkproc -n lockd || \ /usr/sbin/rpc.lockd

and restarted the NFS server. The error is gone and so far everything seems to work.

Avi

--On Monday, April 02, 2001 15:20:33 -0700 "Konstantin (Kastus) Shchuka" wrote:

...
Hi,

<rant mode>

I lost whole Friday trying to upgrade my 7.0 box at work to 7.1. Finally I gave up understanding that the only way to upgrade is do a clean install.

I would appreciate if that were written in BIG letters somewhere on the box.

I did a clean install, chose kernel 2.4 as a default, system booted.

Initially I didn't pay attention to the message:

lockdsvc: Invalid argument exit status of /usr/sbin/rpc.lockd: 1

from rcnfs script.

Later I discovered that I cannot copy a big (19Megs) file to a nfs-mounted disk from Solaris. There were no problems earlier when I was using SuSE 7.0.

I can copy a small file, I can create directories, but as soon as I try to copy something big, I receive input/output error.

I installed then 2.4.2 kernel form SuSE, and nfsutils-0.2.1-20. Nothing changed, same hanging and error while copying big file over nfs.

Is this a feature of 7.1 with 2.4.2 kernel that NFS should not work?

-Kastus

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Graham Smith

01:43

New subject: [SLE] NFS with kernel 2.4.2 -- is it supposed to work?

Hi, There was a couple of things mentioned a while back on LWN on problems with the 2.4.2 kernel and the ReiserFS which may be of interest.. Ref: http://www.lwn.net/2001/0301/kernel.php3 http://www.lwn.net/2001/0222/kernel.php3. Regards, Graham Smith ---------------------------------- On 03-Apr-2001 Konstantin (Kastus) Shchuka wrote:

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Avi,

You are right about fixing lockd under 2.4.2 but you are wrong stating that 2.4.2 is ready for prime time.

NFS client in 2.4.2 has serious problems.

I mount an NFS exported share from Solaris 2.7 onto my 7.1 system. Everything is fine when reading from NFS. When I try to copy a big (20+ Megs) file to NFS the cp command hangs and then spits input/output error message. Nothing gets copied.

I reboot my Linux box into 2.2.18 kernel and repeat the same cp command. File gets copied.

That means 2.4.2 kernel is ready for prime time with NFS for read-only. If that's the definition of prime time, let it be so...

Could anybody on the list repeat this test, writing a big file to nfs-mounted disk using SuSE stock kernel 2.4.2?

Thanks,

-Kastus

On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 07:37:16PM -0500, Avi Schwartz wrote:

...
Unlike what other are saying, 2.4.2. is ready for prime time. I am attaching a mail message I sent this list last week regarding this problem. Is show how to fix it. The problem is with the script that starts NFS under the 2.4.X kernels:

When starting up the nfsserver under Kernel 2.4.2 I get the error message lockdsvc : invalid argument. Searching the Internet (thanks Google!), I found some messages in the linux-kernel mailing list that there is no need to start rpc.lockd from the init scripts any more when using rhe 2.4.X kernels as it is loaded automatically on mount. I commented out these line from /etc/rc.d/nfsserver:

checkproc -n lockd || \ /usr/sbin/rpc.lockd

and restarted the NFS server. The error is gone and so far everything seems to work.

Avi

--On Monday, April 02, 2001 15:20:33 -0700 "Konstantin (Kastus) Shchuka" wrote:

...
Hi,

<rant mode>

I lost whole Friday trying to upgrade my 7.0 box at work to 7.1. Finally I gave up understanding that the only way to upgrade is do a clean install.

I would appreciate if that were written in BIG letters somewhere on the box.

I did a clean install, chose kernel 2.4 as a default, system booted.

Initially I didn't pay attention to the message:

lockdsvc: Invalid argument exit status of /usr/sbin/rpc.lockd: 1

from rcnfs script.

Later I discovered that I cannot copy a big (19Megs) file to a nfs-mounted disk from Solaris. There were no problems earlier when I was using SuSE 7.0.

I can copy a small file, I can create directories, but as soon as I try to copy something big, I receive input/output error.

I installed then 2.4.2 kernel form SuSE, and nfsutils-0.2.1-20. Nothing changed, same hanging and error while copying big file over nfs.

Is this a feature of 7.1 with 2.4.2 kernel that NFS should not work?

-Kastus

Avi Schwartz

01:56

New subject: [SLE] NFS with kernel 2.4.2 -- is it supposed to work?

I had no problem reading and writing multiple large files, 21 MB and 26 MB files to and from NFS mounted share. Both machines run Linux and the partitions are ReiserFS. Avi --On Monday, April 02, 2001 18:28:32 -0700 "Konstantin (Kastus) Shchuka" wrote:

...

Avi,

You are right about fixing lockd under 2.4.2 but you are wrong stating that 2.4.2 is ready for prime time.

NFS client in 2.4.2 has serious problems.

I mount an NFS exported share from Solaris 2.7 onto my 7.1 system. Everything is fine when reading from NFS. When I try to copy a big (20+ Megs) file to NFS the cp command hangs and then spits input/output error message. Nothing gets copied.

I reboot my Linux box into 2.2.18 kernel and repeat the same cp command. File gets copied.

That means 2.4.2 kernel is ready for prime time with NFS for read-only. If that's the definition of prime time, let it be so...

Could anybody on the list repeat this test, writing a big file to nfs-mounted disk using SuSE stock kernel 2.4.2?

Thanks,

-Kastus

On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 07:37:16PM -0500, Avi Schwartz wrote:

...
Unlike what other are saying, 2.4.2. is ready for prime time. I am attaching a mail message I sent this list last week regarding this problem. Is show how to fix it. The problem is with the script that starts NFS under the 2.4.X kernels:

When starting up the nfsserver under Kernel 2.4.2 I get the error message lockdsvc : invalid argument. Searching the Internet (thanks Google!), I found some messages in the linux-kernel mailing list that there is no need to start rpc.lockd from the init scripts any more when using rhe 2.4.X kernels as it is loaded automatically on mount. I commented out these line from /etc/rc.d/nfsserver:

checkproc -n lockd || \ /usr/sbin/rpc.lockd

and restarted the NFS server. The error is gone and so far everything seems to work.

Avi

--On Monday, April 02, 2001 15:20:33 -0700 "Konstantin (Kastus) Shchuka" wrote:

...
Hi,

<rant mode>

I lost whole Friday trying to upgrade my 7.0 box at work to 7.1. Finally I gave up understanding that the only way to upgrade is do a clean install.

I would appreciate if that were written in BIG letters somewhere on the box.

I did a clean install, chose kernel 2.4 as a default, system booted.

Initially I didn't pay attention to the message:

lockdsvc: Invalid argument exit status of /usr/sbin/rpc.lockd: 1

from rcnfs script.

Later I discovered that I cannot copy a big (19Megs) file to a nfs-mounted disk from Solaris. There were no problems earlier when I was using SuSE 7.0.

I can copy a small file, I can create directories, but as soon as I try to copy something big, I receive input/output error.

I installed then 2.4.2 kernel form SuSE, and nfsutils-0.2.1-20. Nothing changed, same hanging and error while copying big file over nfs.

Is this a feature of 7.1 with 2.4.2 kernel that NFS should not work?

-Kastus

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Konstantin (Kastus) Shchuka

02:27

New subject: [SLE] NFS with kernel 2.4.2 -- is it supposed to work?

On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 08:56:08PM -0500, Avi Schwartz wrote:

...

I had no problem reading and writing multiple large files, 21 MB and 26 MB files to and from NFS mounted share. Both machines run Linux and the ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

This is the difference in our setups. I am using shares exported from Solaris 2.7 system. Thanks Avi for the test!

...

partitions are ReiserFS.

Avi

Actually, I found a message on Linux Kernel mailing list pointing to a bug recorded in Red Hat bug tracking system http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30944 but it refers to NFS server on SGI Irix 6.5.x and symptoms are different. The error is a missing directory when reading from NFS share. Can we expect an NFS patch from SuSE for 2.4.2/2.4.3 kernel? Thanks, -Kastus

...

--On Monday, April 02, 2001 18:28:32 -0700 "Konstantin (Kastus) Shchuka" wrote:

...
Avi,

You are right about fixing lockd under 2.4.2 but you are wrong stating that 2.4.2 is ready for prime time.

NFS client in 2.4.2 has serious problems.

I mount an NFS exported share from Solaris 2.7 onto my 7.1 system. Everything is fine when reading from NFS. When I try to copy a big (20+ Megs) file to NFS the cp command hangs and then spits input/output error message. Nothing gets copied.

I reboot my Linux box into 2.2.18 kernel and repeat the same cp command. File gets copied.

That means 2.4.2 kernel is ready for prime time with NFS for read-only. If that's the definition of prime time, let it be so...

Could anybody on the list repeat this test, writing a big file to nfs-mounted disk using SuSE stock kernel 2.4.2?

Thanks,

-Kastus

On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 07:37:16PM -0500, Avi Schwartz wrote:

...
Unlike what other are saying, 2.4.2. is ready for prime time. I am attaching a mail message I sent this list last week regarding this problem. Is show how to fix it. The problem is with the script that starts NFS under the 2.4.X kernels:

When starting up the nfsserver under Kernel 2.4.2 I get the error message lockdsvc : invalid argument. Searching the Internet (thanks Google!), I found some messages in the linux-kernel mailing list that there is no need to start rpc.lockd from the init scripts any more when using rhe 2.4.X kernels as it is loaded automatically on mount. I commented out these line from /etc/rc.d/nfsserver:

checkproc -n lockd || \ /usr/sbin/rpc.lockd

and restarted the NFS server. The error is gone and so far everything seems to work.

Avi

--On Monday, April 02, 2001 15:20:33 -0700 "Konstantin (Kastus) Shchuka" wrote:

...
Hi,

<rant mode>

I lost whole Friday trying to upgrade my 7.0 box at work to 7.1. Finally I gave up understanding that the only way to upgrade is do a clean install.

I would appreciate if that were written in BIG letters somewhere on the box.

I did a clean install, chose kernel 2.4 as a default, system booted.

Initially I didn't pay attention to the message:

lockdsvc: Invalid argument exit status of /usr/sbin/rpc.lockd: 1

from rcnfs script.

Later I discovered that I cannot copy a big (19Megs) file to a nfs-mounted disk from Solaris. There were no problems earlier when I was using SuSE 7.0.

I can copy a small file, I can create directories, but as soon as I try to copy something big, I receive input/output error.

I installed then 2.4.2 kernel form SuSE, and nfsutils-0.2.1-20. Nothing changed, same hanging and error while copying big file over nfs.

Is this a feature of 7.1 with 2.4.2 kernel that NFS should not work?

-Kastus

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