Re: Occassional "permission denied" in the middle of a large transfer over NFS

On 02/07/2012 13:05, Andrey Simonenko wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 12:13:30PM +0100, Vincent Hoffman wrote:
>> On 01/07/2012 01:53, Rick Macklem wrote:
>>> I haven't looked at Andrey's patch, but conceptually it sounds like
>>> the best approach. As I understand it, the problem with replacing
>>> mountd with nfse (at least in the FreeBSD source tree) is that nfse
>>> is not 100% backwards compatible with /etc/exports and, as such, is
>>> a POLA violation.
>> Understood. Its far from a simple drop in replacement.
> List of difference between "nfse -C ..." (compatible mode with mountd)
> and mountd is given here:
>
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2012-June/014554.html
>
> If we ignore absence of some obsolete options support and some command
> line options, the rest of differences visible to a user will occur only
> if one does not follow rules of exports(5) file format.
>
> The native mode of nfse (nfs.exports(5) file format) is different
> than the logic of mountd, just because using existent exports(5) file
> format it is impossible to specify export of not mounted file system,
> it is impossible to specify all export settings for one file system in
> one line, etc.
>
> Can you verify whether nfse compatible mode with mountd is really
> compatible with exports(5) files on your systems using instructions
> from this message (no installation or patching is required):
>
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2010-May/008421.html
Its certainly compatible for me. I only have simple requirements though.
(Basic NFS exports for servers to dump their backups onto.)
nfse does look very good to me and I'll certainly be trying it in a VM.
Any Ideas as to what would be needed to get this imported?

Vince