[ILUG] NFS advice

[Paul Jakma]

On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Kevin Philp wrote:

> We have made some changes to the NFS setup. But it still takes goes 
> on slowdowns every now and then... sometimes fine and then goes to 
> sleep. Looking at the setup on the desktop I notice IPV6 is enabled 
> - is this likely to be messing up my routing? We don't use IPV6.

Unlikely, Linux NFS doesn't support IPv6.

Which Linux version do you use btw?

Have you tried the previous suggestions? (mount with tcp 
particularly). Also export with no_subtree_check on any volumes which 
do /not/ have other filesystems mounted under the export point.

regards,
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