Unstable NFS mount from shared Solaris filesystem?

[Kelly D. Grills]

On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 10:33:15AM -0400, Louis LeBlanc wrote:
> 
> I know this has been asked before, but I can't find the answer through
> searches.  I don't remember if this was a FreeBSD or a Solaris related
> issue, either, so I'm sorry of I'm getting too far OT.
> 
> I'm trying to mount an NFS share from a Solaris 10 (x86) system to a
> FreeBSD (5.3-RELEASE-p4) system.  For some reason, working in the NFS
> filesystem on the FreeBSD system meets with annoyingly frequent
> lockups of the terminal, particularly when editing files or executing
> df or du.
> 
> If there's a configuration somewhere that fixes this, I can't find it.
> 
> My /etc/fstab entry on the FreeBSD box is:
> sol:/export/home  /sol/home  nfs  rw,noauto,bg,soft 0 0
> 
> /etc/dfs/dfstab on the Solaris box contains:
> share  -F nfs  -o rw  -d "home dirs"  /export/home
> 
> and /etc/dfs/sharetab contains:
> /export/home    -       nfs     rw      home dirs
> 
> I don't think I'm missing anything, but I'm sure NFS isn't supposed to
> be this unstable either.
> 
> Any suggestions would be welcome.

See FAQ 12.12 and section 23.3.5 of the handbook.
The -r=1024 parameter solved my problems.

-- 
Kelly D. Grills
kdgrills at the-grills.com

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