NFS using ZFS issue

Rick Macklem rmacklem at uoguelph.ca
Thu Oct 18 22:18:11 UTC 2012


Alexey Tyurikov wrote:
> The solution is very simple: use 9.1 :-) Unbelievable ...
> 
Oh, when I mention looking at the changes, I always forget
to include viewvc in the url, This is what I meant to type:
  http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base/stable/9

rick

> 
> Best regards
> Alexey
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> 2012/10/18 Alexey Tyurikov < alexey.tyurikov at gmail.com >
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> Hello Rick,
> 
> 
> thank you for the tip, I'll try it. What I've already done, I've
> installed a FreeBSD server on at least 5 machines including 3 virtual
> machines. It always the same with the exception of FreeBSD 8.2
> (hardware and virtual machine) - it works.
> 
> 
> Then I've tested different clients:
> - FreeBSD Client works
> - RedHat  5.6 (Tikanga) works (!) but only with NFSv3
> - CentOS 6 doesn't work
> - Debian 6 doesn't work
> 
> 
> Regarding non-closing file from capture output: the file has been
> closed, it was just cut by tcpdump. You can see it in the 
> test_zfs_2.pcap
> 
> 
> 38546 0.490573 10.1.3.90 10.1.3.111 NFS 262 V4 Call (Reply In 38547)
> CLOSE StateID:0x1fe0
> 38547 0.490759 10.1.3.111 10.1.3.90 NFS 202 V4 Reply (Call In 38546)
> CLOSE
> 
> 
> Rick, thank you for your help! I'll post my issue on freebsd-fs at . If
> I'll find a solution, I'll let you know.
> 
> 
> Best regards
> Alexey
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> 2012/10/18 Rick Macklem < rmacklem at uoguelph.ca >
> 
> 
> Just a ranom thought. Since you still seem to have packet
> loss and then there is the weird behaviour (no replies, but
> data moving from server->client), it might be network
> interface related.
> 
> If your network interface has TSO support, I'd try disabling
> that (it has been buggy in the past).
> 
> Also, if you have a different kind (different chipset) of
> network hardware, you could try switching that on the server.
> 
> Mostly though, I'll be interested to see if anyone else can
> explain it, when you post it to a list (freebsd-fs@ maybe?), rick
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> --
> Alexey Tyurikov
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> --
> Alexey Tyurikov


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