[mythtv-users] slightly OT: NFS causes hard lockups

Scott Clark scott at myaddiction.org
Thu Mar 2 15:33:26 UTC 2006


Maybe I missed it, but what does your exports file look like on your
NFS server and what command options are you using to mount it on the
client?

On 3/2/06, Rudy Zijlstra <mythtv at edsons.demon.nl> wrote:
> matthew.garman at gmail.com wrote:
>
> >On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 02:53:31PM +0100, Rudy Zijlstra wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Interesting. My master backend doubles as NFS server for myth, and
> >>the slave backend mounts the storage over NFS, as do the
> >>frontends. SW raid5 with XFS as filesystem and no problems.
> >>
> >>Which distro / kernel?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Gentoo and 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 (i.e. stock 2.6.15 kernel with the
> >gentoo patches---I'm not completely sure what all these patches are,
> >although I'm sure it's documented somewhere :)
> >
> >Do most people use vanilla (i.e. kernel.org) sources, or their
> >distro-specific kernels?  (If I had to guess, I'd bet that there's a
> >fairly equal mix of both.)
> >
> >Thanks!
> >Matt
> >
> >
> >
> I am using vanilla kernel 2.6.12.5 on that server (slackware based).
> Be aware that 2.6.15 has some NFS problems, expectations are that those
> will be solved in 2.6.16.
>
> Rudy
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