NFS V3 question

From: Sean McInerney <seanm_at_sybase.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 17:01:46 -0400

 Alpha Gang,

        I'm having problems mounting filesystems that support
 NFS V3. But only on one paticular Alpha. The box is running
 Dunix 4.0 (uname -a is OSF1 V4.0 464 alpha).
 
        If I use a generic mount command ( mount box:/disk1 /disk1 )
 or let automount do it, it looks like this:

# mount | grep box
box:/disk1 on /disk1 type nfs (v3, rw, udp, hard, intr)

 and these mounts hang and I get the infamous "nfs server xxx not
 responding". Using the output from the mount command I soon
 realized that the only mounts that were failing also had the "v3"
 designation. I also noticed that it did not matter which platform
 the "v3" was on. All "v2" mounts were accessable. Rerunning
 nfssetup did not help.

        We have been running automount for months on
 this box without problems. The automount map is a direct map
 with nothing fancy. The only thing I have changed since this
 broke is upgrade to the 440 chips (10 of them) on Friday. I can't
 see how this would affect NFS.
        
         If I manually mount with the following command:

# mount -o nfsv2 box:/disk1 /disk1

 specifying to mount using nfsv2, that works fine.

        The engineering group that uses the box swears that they
 made no software changes. We've all heard that one before and I
 suspect otherwise, but can't find the changes to prove it. Other
 2100's and 4100's use the same setup and exist fine with v3.
 It does not matter if the NFS V3 mount is on Sun or Alpha or SNI.
 If it supports V3, and the mount command shows that it does, then
 it hangs.

 Stumped. Point out my Dunix ignorance (Sun bread).


 Thanks in advance.

 ....Sean


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