Hello all, I'm having a problem with nfsd (from Mandrake 9.0 install 2.4.19
kernel) on a xfs partition. I am running an IDE RAID5 with 3Ware's Escalade
7500 controller. The xfs partition as 1.1T. I can nfs cp large ammounts of
small files on to the xfs partition without any problems, but as soon as I
try to transfer a large file to the partition, the entire server freezes
when about 200 megs have been transfered. At this point, the server is
completely frozen and can only be restarted manually. I can, however, nfs
cp large files to the same server, but on to a smaller 100G ext3 partition.
All other disk-intensive processes cause the xfs partition no problems,
other than NFS. I can scp, rcp, rsh, and rsync to and from the XFS
partition perfectly. I can also copy large files to and from it locally
with no problems. The server seems to hang only when I transfer large files
via NFS to or from the xfs partition. I can, for example, nfs cp -R a
directory that is 1G to the xfs partition as long as each file within the
directory is less than about 200M. However, a nfs cp of a single file that
is 260M freezes the server every time. Ideally, I would like to find a work
around the issue without having to re-format the entire RAID. Any help
would be greatly appreciated.
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Mark Hartwig
Boulder Custom Homes
720-530-4102
hartwigm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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