NFS occassionally gives "permission" denied in the middle of a large transfer

[Tillman Hodgson]

On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 08:16:50PM -0600, Tillman Hodgson wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 06:08:56PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote:
> > That's probably it, then.  /sbin/mount has code that sends SIGHUP to
> > mountd on any mount operation.  Which implies that any manual mount
> > request, including NFS mounts would, cause the problem.  Amd calls the
> > mount syscall directly, bypassing /sbin/mount.
> > 
> > Ideally, mountd would be able to compare the current and new export
> > settings and only update the ones that changed, or have a way to create
> > a new mountlist and ask the kernel to replace the old one in a single
> > atomic operation.
> 
> I'll disable the umount/mount stuff from my dump script for /home and
> run periodic/weekly by hand to test this.

After a fair amount of testing, I can now report that all servers all
backing up via dump to an NFS export without problems. Thanks!

-T


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