=========================================================================== $NetBSD: MESSAGE,v 1.1 2002/07/15 11:32:17 agc Exp $ The following mail from Steve Bellovin, which can also be viewed at http://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/2002/07/15/0006.html is relevant to users of this package: Delivered-To: current-users@netbsd.org From: "Steven M. Bellovin" To: current-users@netbsd.org Subject: Re: CFS with NetBSD 1.6 Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 14:00:59 +0900 Precedence: list In message <20020630000510.2a034cf4.520079546242-0001@t-online.de>, Michael Cor e writes: >Hi, > >is cfsd still useable with NetBSD 1.6? I haven't used it for a while and >now I cannot access the files in my cfs'd directory anymore. cfs_attach >works and I can walk the directories but the moment I access a file >(with cat, less or whatever) the program or shell stalls. top shows that >cfsd waits in "select" and several nfsio show "nfsidl". I'll give it >another try with a GENERIC-kernel but I'm afraid that isn't the problem. > The problem turns out to be NFS blocksize -- I got the idea from some other discussions about problems caused by the change in the default blocksize. The fix is to use the following mount command: mount -o intr,-2,-w=4096,-r=4096 127.0.0.1:/null /crypt 8192 doesn't work; I haven't yet groveled through the CFS source to figure out why. --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me) http://www.wilyhacker.com ("Firewalls" book) ===========================================================================