Weird NFS behaviour in busybox

Jun 07, 2004 0 Replies

Hi,



I've got a very strange NFS-problem:



I ran busybox 0.60 on an ARM-platform and import a NFS directory from a standard x86 Linux PC running SuSE 8.1 with the 2.4-kernel based NFS server.



After I updated the PC (the NFS *SERVER*) to SuSE 9.1 (with the 2.6-kernel based NFS server), I have this strange behaviour:



The NFS-volume will mount fine, I can browse directories and I can even read small files, however if I try to copy a bigger file (I suspect that files bigger than one NFS-block are affected which would be 4096 bytes AFAIK), busybox hangs.



I tried to use the userspace-NFS server, but that busybox doesn't even import it correctly.



I just use "nolock" as parameters in /etc/fstab.



I also updated busybox to version 1.00 pre 10, but the behaviour stayed the same.



Does anybody has experience with busybox and NFS? I think this problem is probably caused by a bug in busybox' NFS implementation, do you agree? Maybe it's just a configuration issue, does anybody has busybox successfully importing NFS-directories from 2.6-kernel based NFS-servers or userspace NFS-servers? If yes, please post the relevant /etc/exports and /etc/fstab files.



Thank you very much,



Rob


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