[KLUG Members] Odd NFS Mount problem.

[Bryan J. Smith]

Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> I can then remount /usr/pcnet and it is ok, and /home
> becomes a stale handle.... round and round we go...
> Anyone seen or heard about this?

Couple of suggestions ...

1.  Try starting more NFS daemons in your server's
/etc/rc.d/init.d/nfs script.

2.  Recommend making sure your "nfs-utils" version is the same on
all Linux clients.

3.  Recommend making all your RedHat versions the same, especially
since RedHat 7.0 runs kernel 2.2.x and RedHat 7.1/2 runs kernel
2.4.x.

3a.  What happens if you use NFS v2 for just the 7.0 systems?  BTW,
NFS v3 support differs _radically_ between kernel 2.2.x and 2.4.x
(the former, at least as of 2.2.18, is a limited backport of the
latter).

4.  Any reason you are using 16KB block sizes?  I usually stick with
the 8KB default of NFS v2, or 32KB default of NFS v3.  BTW, I think
Alan Cox _ignored_ the specs, and make 1KB the "default" in 2.2.18+
(same in 2.4.x???).

-- Bryan

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