I've since replaced it with a nice Xeon based Dell box with RH9. I'm already having NFS problems. One of things I do is all my NFS mounts are handled by the automounter, I don't like file systems mounted that aren't used.
My /etc/auto.net entries look like this:
nfsserver -rw,soft,intr nfsserver.gagme.com:/home
On the server the /etc/exports looks like this:
/home *(rw,sync,no_root_squash)
The problem is whenever I need to do any heavy I/O to the NFS mount I get I/O errors. For example I just tried to cat a large file to an NFS mounted file and I got this:
cat: write error: Input/output error
I also tried to do a "cp -R" of a file system from the server to a laptop and got this:
cp: closing `/net/dhcp-101/greg/server-copy/Private/.....': Input/output error
cp: writing `/net/dhcp-101/greg/server-copy/Private/....': Input/output error
cp: closing `/net/dhcp-101/greg/server-copy/Private/.....': Input/output error
cp: writing `/net/dhcp-101/greg/server-copy/Private/.....': Input/output error
Frankly, it doesn't matter which machine is the client or server, just about any time I do any heavy I/O between any two Linux box I get I/O errors. However NFS I/O between a Linux box and the SPARC server always worked just fine.
Any ideas?
-- Greg Gulik http://www.gulik.org/greg/ greg @ gulik.org
