Re: nfs optimization settings in the automounter

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

Justin Rush wrote:
> I am having a hard time telling the automounter to use the options
> rsize=32768,wsize=32768 when automounting home directories.  I have
> tried specifying these options in the auto.home file on my nis master
> server ( -rw,soft,rsize=32768,wsize=32768 nismaster:/export/home/jrush )
> I have also tried to put them in the localoptions setting in the autofs
> init file ( localoptions='rsize=32768,wsize=32768' ) on both the nis
> master and on the client machines.
> I also tried to specify these options in the auto.master file on the nis
> master (the client machines don't have auto.master files because they
> read the nis master's file ) ( /etc/auto.home 
> --timeout=43200,rsize=32768,wsize=32768 )
> I have also tried to use lower settings such as 16384
> 
> however when I look in /proc/mounts on the client machine it is either
> mounted with 4096 or 8192
> 

Are you using NFSv3?  As far as I know I think 8192 is max for NFSv2, at
least for most of the NFSv2 servers I know.

Try doing the mounting without using autofs.  If the same thing happens,
it's an NFS issue, not an autofs issue.

	-hpa