[nas-2000] Re: NFS Write problems / lockups

  • From: philipp Wehrheim <flipstar@xxxxxxx>
  • To: nas-2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 23:04:30 +0200


Christian Wolf schrieb:
> danke, thank you - but I need to replace the Raidsonic firmware then
> with your Tinky firmware, right?
not really if don't use twonky you can use the tinky hack
to access the nas and then write a little script (not a big thing if
you remaster Ubuntu DVD)
> 
> Not that I am really afraid to do this, but open brain surgery on this
> device needs a full HD backup before, and as stated in the Wiki: WHERE
> the heck should I backup my 300 GB data to? :-) I assume that I have
> to re-partion the HD after the new firmware has been uploaded, right?
> Or is the backup hint in the wiki just for the cautious among us? :-)
> 
> (didnt backup the NAS when I upgraded from firmware 1.x to 2.x - the
> NAS broke but the data on the HD was still ok :-O )
usualy the backup is not needed but I don't want to get blamed
if you lose your data! So its always better to expetc that the data
will be lost :-)
> 
> 2007/5/17, philipp Wehrheim <flipstar@xxxxxxx>:
>> hehe sorry should have read the mail before anwsering ..
>>
>> im not sure if the default fw (busybox) comes with
>> sysctl if so you can tweak the start script
>>
>> /usr/hddapp/etc/rc.d/S85nfs.sh
>>
>> and define a bigger value to
>> NFS_QS
>>
>> -- 
>> flip
>>
>> philipp Wehrheim schrieb:
>> > Hi Chris,
>> >
>> > what is your firmware?
>> >
>> > Christian Wolf schrieb:
>> >> Hi there,
>> >>
>> >> I have the following machine:
>> >>
>> >> Hardware Name             IB-NAS 1000 Platform
>> >> Firmware Version      2.3.2.patch.IB.1.beta.5 (Dec. 1, 2006)
>> >> Hardware Version      Rev. B
>> >> Product Vendor             ICY BOX
>> >>
>> >> I am using it as NFS server for Linux machines. Reading from the Icy
>> >> works very well (while not really fast, compared to ftp transfers,
>> >> maybe up to 2,5 MByte/sec on our 100MBit Lan).
>> >>
>> >> However, writing to the Icy is a pain in the *ss: I can not move files
>> >>> 650 MB (I am customizing Ubuntu DVDs, so I have file sizes up to 2
>> >> GB, also when I use virtual machine images that I store on the NAS)
>> >> without the NAS crashing. First it stalls, then it does no respond any
>> >> more and needs to be rebooted. I therefore have to upload large files
>> >> via ftp, which is unconvenient and nothing my wife can do :-)
>> >>
>> >> I am using the following mout parameters on the local machines:
>> >>
>> >> Icy:/mnt/IDE1/public     /media/Icy     nfs
>> >> rw,bg,soft,intr,retry=5,wsize=2048,rsize=8192 0 0
>> >>
>> >> I tried also large wsize parameters (8192 etc.) but that also did
>> not help.
>> >>
>> >> Any ideas how this could be fixed?
>> >>
>> >
>>
>>
> 

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