[plug] Debian NFS Problems

[Christian]

On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 02:02:52PM +0800, Brad Campbell wrote:

> I share a 25Gig drive from a box running Debian 2.1r4(slink)
> with NFS, the drive is remotely mounted on a Debian 2.2pre
> (potato) box, that has it's software updated every week or so.
> I was having no problems at all, until someone suggested I alter
> the mount options from default to default, read=8192,write=8192.
> This was supposed to speed things up over the network.
> After checking the man pages to make sure I was not doing anything
> really really stupid.. And I don't think I was, I changed this.

Checking nfs(5), I don't see any read or write options...  There's
'rsize' and 'wsize' which may be what you're looking for...  I'm not
sure whether specifying non-existent options would cause the problems
you describe but it might be a place to start. :-)

Regards,

Christian.