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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!eur.nl!pk
- From: pk@cs.few.eur.nl (Paul Kranenburg)
- Subject: Re: NFS mount of /usr
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.114552.15049@cs.few.eur.nl>
- Sender: news@cs.few.eur.nl
- Reply-To: pk@cs.few.eur.nl
- Organization: Erasmus University Rotterdam
- References: <sxjcb-290792093009@sxjcb.uacn.alaska.edu>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 11:45:52 GMT
- Lines: 28
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- In <sxjcb-290792093009@sxjcb.uacn.alaska.edu> sxjcb@orca.alaska.edu (Jay C. Beavers) writes:
-
- >I've been playing around with NFS and such and it's working just fine, so
- >I've
- >tried to take NFS to it's next logical step on my 39 MB system -- NFS
- >mounting
- >/usr. However, 386BSD seems to think that this is just a horrible idea and
- >I've had no end of trouble.
-
- >If I leave the rc file intact, I get a system hang after 'starting system
- >logger'.
-
- >If I edit the rc file to hardcode my old usr directory (/oldusr) to every
- >file located in /usr I get a hang after the rc file ends.
-
- I have used a NFS mounted /usr from day 1 (never had a /usr partition on
- the local HD). You need to set the correct parameters to enable your network
- device to handle the traffic generated by the server. I am currently using a
- WD8003 card which has an 8K buffer, so the default NFS read/write packet size
- of 8K will most likely generate to many back-to-back ethernet packets when
- mounting from a fast server. I use this entry in /etc/fstab:
-
- bridei:/export/exec/i386 /usr nfs rw,rsize=4096,wsize=4096 0 0
-
- Reading from the NFS mounted filesystem is actually faster than from the local
- hard disk (not much, but it was above expectations).
-
- -pk
-