NFS cross-mount issue

From: Bill Verzal (Bill_Verzal@BCBSIL.COM)
Date: Fri Feb 07 2003 - 11:05:40 EST


Scenario:

     2 SP nodes AIX 4.3.3, PSSP 3.4, HACMP 4.4.0 (PSSP upgrade completed
this past weekend)
     SSA disk attached to system 1
     10 filesystems on SSA disk mounted under name 1-10
     10 filesystems named 1-10 NFS mounted on same system 1 as filesystems
11-20
     10 filesystems named 1010 NFS mounted on system 2 as filesystems 11-20

Problem:

     When a job runs, the NFS mounts on system 1 hang up (you can't "ls"),
the application dies,
     The NFS mounts on system 2 are fine.
     The SSA mounts on system 1 are fine.
     The offending job gets no CPU time.
     There is much network activity on the NFS segment (private tokenring
segment between the 2 servers - and 2 others)

Question:

     What is going on ? Why does this job bury the NFS mounts ?
     Did the PSSP upgrade break something ?
     Is there a known NFS cross-mount issue I may be seeing ?

Background:

     smitty | clverify: Checks out OK
     Patch level: ML10
     NFS Client: 4.3.3.81
     NFS Server: 4.3.3.11

I've run traces and everything and I'm pretty stumped so far.

B V:)
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