Re: NFS on version 2.1.60

Bill Hawes (whawes@star.net)
Sat, 01 Nov 1997 11:58:03 -0500

Richard B. Johnson wrote:
>
> It appears that if I mount a remote file system and then `tar` a directory
> tree to it, all is fine unless the remote file-system becomes full.
> Once the remote file-system becomes fill, the local 'tar' goes into
> uninterruptable sleep and nfsiod becomes continuously busy using about
> 10% of available CPU time. The remote file-system can't be dismounted.
>
> Further, if I shut down the remote machine (a Sun), the local nsfiod
> goes back to sleep but the `tar` process is still hung in uninterruptable
> sleep. Once the remote system has been shut down, I can still read
> the mounted file-system's directory on the local machine. If I attempt
> to write to it (by deleting some files), the shell process hangs forever
> just like the `tar` process.

Thanks for the report, I'll take a look at what's happening.

I'm not sure how disk full errors are normally handled, so will have to
research this a bit.

Regards,
Bill