Re: How can I tell if it is NFS's problem or hard drive's problem?



Jack wrote:
The I/O operations on my client system often encounters I/O errors,
such as read or write operations from client to file server. How to
tell what causes the problem? NFS or the local hard drive of file
server? Is the error information from NFS different from error
information from local hard drive?

Two things:
1. Check the logs. Typically, I would expect such errors in low-level
filesystem driver code to log the error somewhere.
2. It could be that your client is buggy. For example some calls return
EAGAIN when they are interrupted by something. That is a recoverable
failure and you should just try again. I'm not sure if that is the case
here, but I'd track down the calls that fail and read the manpage very
closely.

Uli

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