Broken NFS server (or client?)

Lincoln Peters lincoln_peters at hotmail.com
Mon Aug 13 13:45:14 PDT 2001


I'm recompiling both kernels, just to be sure that they are set up the way I 
think they are.  But since the server is a 486DX/50, it might take a while.

Anyway, I'll send the .config files for the two kernels ASAP.


>From: Mark Street <jet at sonic.net>
>Reply-To: <talk at nblug.org>
>To: <talk at nblug.org>, talk at nblug.org
>Subject: Re: Broken NFS server (or client?)
>Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 10:45:40 -0700
>
>Good point....I knew we were headed here as I mentioned this to Linc last
>week.  I have rolled several 2.4.8 kernels in the last few days and am
>quite familiar with the options for the nfs daemon and client as well as
>version 3 support in the kernel.  How about a peek at the kernel config for
>the server and the client kernels?  That might cut down on some of the
>myriad of gremlins that "might" be going on here.
>
>At 06:33 PM 8/12/2001 -0700, ME wrote:
>>I feel uneasy asking you this question, because you seem to have done so
>>many other things right, but I'll ask it anyway: are you sure that you are
>>using the new kernel you compiled with knfsd support *and* client based
>>nfs support too? (modified lilo.conf and rebooted with the new kernel
>>actually showing up, etc.) (Please dont take offense, I just want to
>>eliminate it from the realm of possible problems.)
>>
>>Your disk based client station should at least have nfs listed in
>>/proc/filesystems as that is a list of filesystems that kernel can
>>mount. I am not 100% certain, but think you could probably have your
>>server not have client nfs support and still export nfs, but I dont see
>>any reason for that. If it appears after you have an nfs service point
>>mounted, then there is a chance that you have your nfs client set up as a
>>module and it is being inserted and removed as you use it and no longer
>>need it, but that seems unlikely unless you have some sort of crontab
>>thing for removing it.
>


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