[ILUG] NFS probs

[John P. Looney]

On Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 12:12:50PM -0000, Jakma, Paul mentioned:
> >  Wierd one. Looks like an NFS client side problem in 2.3.35. 
> looks more like a server problem

 OK, but why just one client ? Why just one version of Linux with this
problem ?

> but something internal to knfsd went wrong?? getfh == get filehandle??

 Yeah, Seems older servers had some problem when there was more than one
export from the one filesystem.

> exportfs -ar
> if that doesn't work try restarting nfs on the server.
> last resort: unexport home, stop nfs, unmount home, remount then re-export
> home, start nfs.

 Heh. Not likely :) Maybe this evening.

> > recent knfs-clients or something ? (it's on a RH 6.1+updates system).
> knfs-clients is now called nfs-utils i think.. available from cvs.

 Still, the server is running the stock redhat kernel that came with 6.1 -
shouldn't be *that* many problems.

Kate

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