Soft mounts are not recommended if you are writing to the filesystem. Use hard mounts.

The errors are likely caused by network problems, which could be a simple misconfiguration. You should open a call with NetApp Customer Support.

Regards, Andrew

-----Original Message----- From: Nick's Lists [mailto:mrlist@noid.org] Sent: 26 April 2001 07:18 To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Input/output errors from Linux clients?

I've been getting some strange errors from my Linux clients...

cp: Input/output error and cat: write Input/output error

They occur randomly when I try to copy or cat 20 - 40mb sized files to and from a filer. Solaris (x86 and Sparc) servers copying the same size files around are not experiencing the same problem.

The file systems are all mounted with nfs2, soft, bg, intr.

Has anyone else seen this before?

TIA!

• Nick