problems with nfs+TCP - Resource temporarily unavailable

[Bernd Walter]

On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 01:03:25AM +0200, Oliver Lehmann wrote:
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> I tried the same with an other nfs server (using dill as nfs server this
> time - system description is in my 1st mail, same mount options like /
> mnt/files). And guess what? dill rebooted immediate... dd came never
> back, gave no output
> 
> dill's dmesg shows me:
> 
> fatal kernel trap:
> 
>     trap entry     = 0x4 (unaligned access fault)
>     faulting va    = 0xfffffc0006b6f44d
>     opcode         = 0x28
>     register       = 0x5
>     pc             = 0xfffffc0000541e08
>     ra             = 0xfffffc0000541df4
>     sp             = 0xfffffe000a0f9b70
>     usp            = 0x11ffea80
>     curthread      = 0xfffffc000f91ee10
>         pid = 343, comm = nfsd

This is absolutely known - TCP/nfs has bugs in realigning packets.
Don't use TCP on strong aligned architectures.

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