Re: Write to nfs fs gives I/O Error

Bill Hawes (whawes@star.net)
Wed, 26 Nov 1997 21:57:21 -0500


Tony Lill wrote:

> Unfortunately, it's not that consistent. It always happens with my
> Unixware server. I've never seen it happen on a file of <= 4096
> bytes. I tried compiling the kernel on an NFS filesystem, and a lot of
> the .o were truncated to 4k.
>
> The error reported by the apps is I/O error (EIO). As in my previous
> message, a couple of the big files from /boot were copied
> intact. Everything else seems to be working, I ran a web server off
> one of these filesystems without any problems.

In 2.1.66 I've added some diagnostics to start tracking down the
unspecified EIO errors, so that may help show what's wrong. What I need
is for you to run tests and see if any of the printks are triggered, and
then I can analyze it further.

Regards,
Bill