Improvement to IPFilter / nfsd in FBSD (6.2+?)

[Patrick Lamaizière]

Garrett Cooper :

Hello,

> Just wondering if anyone has IPFilter / nfsd setup properly on their
> boxes with any beta versions of FBSD.
>
> I am having loads of issues transferring large files (~300MB apiece) or
> issues transferring a large number of smaller files (3MB ~ 10MB apiece)
> from a FBSD 6.1 client to a FBSD 6.1 server, where it transfers part of
> the files, then cp / mv get stuck indefinitely on the client system. The
> stuck cp / mv processes cause the client to hang on reboot, and then
> terminate before all of the buffers are written to disk (which forces
> fsck on next boot).

Did you try to use tcp transport with NFS ? See the '-T' option of 
mount_nfs(8). See also the -i option (Make the mount interruptible).

Regards.