On May 21, 2008, at 11:15 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > I encountered an issue that people using OS-X systems as NFS clients > need to be aware of. While not strictly a ZFS issue, it may be > encounted most often by ZFS users since ZFS makes it easy to support > and export per-user filesystems. The problem I encountered was when > using ZFS to create exported per-user filesystems and the OS-X > automounter to perform the necessary mount magic. > > OS-X creates hidden ".DS_Store" directories in every directory which > is accessed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.DS_Store). > > OS-X decided that it wanted to create the path "/home/.DS_Store" and > it would not take `no' for an answer. First it would try to create > "/home/.DS_Store" and then it would try an alternate name. Since the > automounter was used, there would be an automount request for > "/home/.DS_Store", which does not exist on the server so the mount > request would fail. Since OS-X does not take 'no' for an answer, > there would be subsequent thousands of back to back mount requests. > The end result was that 'mountd' was one of the top three resource > consumers on my system, there would be bursts of high network traffic > (1500 packets/second), and the affected OS-X system would operate > more strangely than normal. > > The simple solution was to simply create a "/home/.DS_Store" directory > on the server so that the mount request would succeed.
Did you try this? http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1629 -Andy > > > Bob > ====================================== > Bob Friesenhahn > [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ > GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
