From: Michael Frank <mflt1@micrologica.com.hk>
To: Jakob Oestergaard <jakob@unthought.net>
Subject: Re: NFS io errors on transfer from system running 2.4 to system running 2.5
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 20:43:28 +0800
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On Tuesday 03 June 2003 20:24, Jakob Oestergaard wrote:
> > When doing rsync or cp _from_ system running 2.4 _to_ system running 2.5
> > get Input/output error errors with random files.
>
> Do you use soft mounts?

Yes

>
> If so, try hard instead. soft will fail, sooner or later.

I don't like hard mounts because these do not timeout.

Also, this does not explain why 2.5 > 2.4 (and 2.4 > 2.4) is OK - _never_ had any problem  

Regards
Michael

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