Another reason I hate NFS: Silent data loss!
Dan Bernstein
brnstnd at kramden.acf.nyu.edu
Wed Jun 19 13:07:10 AEST 1991
In article <27226 at adm.brl.mil> mike at BRL.MIL ( Mike Muuss) writes:
> NFS is designed as a reliable protocol. I have pounded more than 250
> NFS requests/sec against a fileserver, and no data loss.
In this case the 20 requests came in under 1/50 of a second (somewhat
smaller, I think, but I don't have good measuring tools). I can't
sustain this load from one Sun, but a single burst was enough to lose
data.
> Things you
> should check are the number of retransmit's you authorized in /etc/fstab,
If the number of retransmits runs out, the writing process ``should''
get an error. Otherwise the implementation is (obviously) buggy.
> the error logs on both machines (run NFSSTAT), "netstat -s",
Nope. As far as I can tell, the loss was completely silent. I'm working
on a test program to exercise the problem thoroughly; I'll post it when
it's done.
---Dan
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