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| author | agc <agc@pkgsrc.org> | 2002-07-15 11:32:17 +0000 |
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| committer | agc <agc@pkgsrc.org> | 2002-07-15 11:32:17 +0000 |
| commit | 83c17d514868f4d237a4aafad5f6e1fdee0cae48 (patch) | |
| tree | 0b2fa6500ddb39cf3fe0f033a01225f5bb703ccc /security/cfs | |
| parent | 5ffb04fc661e0b01af6ca569fef06442a79e1651 (diff) | |
| download | pkgsrc-83c17d514868f4d237a4aafad5f6e1fdee0cae48.tar.gz | |
Add a pointer to Steve Bellovin's mail in
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/2002/07/15/0006.html
about NFS blocksizes when using mount(8) and cfs
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diff --git a/security/cfs/MESSAGE b/security/cfs/MESSAGE new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..ff854a0ad3f --- /dev/null +++ b/security/cfs/MESSAGE @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +====================================================================== +$NetBSD: MESSAGE,v 1.1 2002/07/15 11:32:17 agc Exp $ + +The following mail from Steve Bellovin, which can also be viewed at + + http://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/2002/07/15/0006.html + +is relevant to users of this package: + +Delivered-To: current-users@netbsd.org +From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com> +To: current-users@netbsd.org +Subject: Re: CFS with NetBSD 1.6 +Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 14:00:59 +0900 +Precedence: list + +In message <20020630000510.2a034cf4.520079546242-0001@t-online.de>, Michael Cor +e writes: +>Hi, +> +>is cfsd still useable with NetBSD 1.6? I haven't used it for a while and +>now I cannot access the files in my cfs'd directory anymore. cfs_attach +>works and I can walk the directories but the moment I access a file +>(with cat, less or whatever) the program or shell stalls. top shows that +>cfsd waits in "select" and several nfsio show "nfsidl". I'll give it +>another try with a GENERIC-kernel but I'm afraid that isn't the problem. +> + +The problem turns out to be NFS blocksize -- I got the idea from some +other discussions about problems caused by the change in the default +blocksize. The fix is to use the following mount command: + + mount -o intr,-2,-w=4096,-r=4096 127.0.0.1:/null /crypt + +8192 doesn't work; I haven't yet groveled through the CFS source to +figure out why. + + --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me) + http://www.wilyhacker.com ("Firewalls" book) + + +====================================================================== |