SGI 3.5 and 3.6 NFS don't like each other. HELP!!!
Dr. R.P. Alston
Robin at turbo.RAY.COM
Wed Aug 31 22:32:38 AEST 1988
HELP. We have some brand spanking new 3130s running the SGI 3.6 OS with NFS
and some older 2400T running 3.5 and NFS. We have mounted some directories
from the new to the old and also from the new to the new. The problem is that
if you are on an old machine using an nfs directory provided by a new one
and try to copy a large file to another version of itself in the same directory
eg:
cp xx xxx
where xx is several copies of /etc/termcap (basically > 100k)
then the new file is all f....d up except that the size is correct.
If you do the same thing in the exact same nfs mount on a new machine (3.6 OS)
it works fine.
On the old machine it appears that the new file has got some repeated blocks
(512 bytes even) as if a sector was read multiple times (I know it can't
be that simple not with the extent file system and nfs).
Does any one else have this combo, is the only work around to upgrade
to 3.6 on the 2400Ts?
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