nfs send error 32

[Eric Anderson]

Konrad Heuer wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've an NFS-mounted filesystem (server runs deadrat linux) on a lot of my
> FreeBSD systems (4.11R), mount options are
> "bg,rw,intr,-T,-r32768,-w32768". Using TCP and 32k buffers does enhance
> performance notably.
> 
> But I've a couple of error messages in /var/log/messages of my clients
> each day like:
> 
> date client /kernel: nfs send error 32 for server deadrat:/fs
> 
> When looking into /usr/src/sys/nfs/nfsproto.h, I don't find anything about
> error code 32.
> 
> Any idea or explanation would be very very welcome!
> 
> BTW: NFS server has to run deadrat linux, and more nfs file systems have
> to be mounted in future from the same or similar machines.

I think it's a lost TCP connection. From man errno:

      32 EPIPE Broken pipe.  A write on a pipe, socket or FIFO for which 
there is no process to read the data.

Not sure why the connection is dropping, but there could be a whole slew 
of reasons for that.

Eric




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