NFS Services Administrator's Guide (B.11.31.02) January 2008

Disabling Logging in CacheFS........................................................................................................93
Caching a Complete Binary.............................................................................................................93
Packing a Cached Filesystem...........................................................................................................93
Forcing a Cache Consistency Check................................................................................................95
Forcing a Consistency Check for a Specific Mount-Point..........................................................95
Forcing a Consistency Check for all the Mount-Points..............................................................95
Unmounting a Cache Filesystem.....................................................................................................95
Checking the Integrity of a Cache...................................................................................................95
Updating Resource Parameters.......................................................................................................96
Deleting a Cache Directory..............................................................................................................97
Using CacheFS......................................................................................................................................98
Displaying CacheFS Statistics..........................................................................................................98
Viewing the CacheFS Statistics..................................................................................................98
Viewing the Working Set (Cache) Size............................................................................................98
Common Problems While Using CacheFS...........................................................................................99
5 Troubleshooting NFS Services..................................................................................101
Common Problems with NFS.............................................................................................................101
NFS “Server Not Responding” Message.......................................................................................101
“Access Denied” Message..............................................................................................................102
“Permission Denied” Message......................................................................................................103
“Device Busy” Message.................................................................................................................103
“Stale File Handle” Message.........................................................................................................104
A Program Hangs..........................................................................................................................105
Data is Lost Between the Client and the Server.............................................................................106
“Too Many Levels of Remote in Path” Message............................................................................106
Common Problems while using Secure NFS with Kerberos..............................................................106
“Permission Denied” Message......................................................................................................106
Performance Tuning............................................................................................................................107
Diagnose NFS Performance Problems...........................................................................................107
Improve NFS Server Performance.................................................................................................108
Improving NFS Client Performance..............................................................................................109
Logging and Tracing of NFS Services.................................................................................................109
Logging for the Other NFS Services..............................................................................................109
To Control the Size of LogFiles.................................................................................................110
To Configure Logging for the Other NFS Services..................................................................110
Logging With nettl and netfmt................................................................................................110
Tracing With nettl and netfmt.................................................................................................111
Index...............................................................................................................................113
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