[KLUG Members] NFS problems viewing subdirectories

[Susan Ator]

We will be using a SAN for part of the data in the very near future. We
might be able to use it for all the shared data. I'll have to look into
that w/ my boss.

Thanks for the suggestions!

Susan


On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 10:48, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > Unfortunately, rebooting is not an option. Actually, unmounting and
> > mounting (couldn't even do a mount -o remount) was the only thing that
> > worked. That is not acceptable either. This is our production server and
> > these directories have to be accessible 24/7.
> 
> While I've never seen this the first thing I would try would be to
> manually specify the nfs block size and version in the mount entry.
> nfsvers=3,rsize=8192,wsize=8192
> 
> If your server side has the filesystem mounted with acl support try
> adding that to your client mount as well (option "acl").
> 
> If you're doing a LOT of I/O over NFS you might want to bump up the
> number of biod workers.
> 
> "You can tune the number of server threads via the sysconfig-variable
> USE_KERNEL_NFSD_NUMBER." this is in /etc/sysconfig/nfs
> 
> > Ah well, for now we put things back the way they were, which was having
> > the data on the server instead of an nfs mount.
> > My partner in crime is going to look at a samba share since we are
> > needing to do two servers with ip failover and we wanted the shared data
> > which is not controlled by cvs to be truly shared.
> 
> Have you looked at something like GFS?  Or placing the data on a
> crosslinked SAN?
> 
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