Subject: Re: NFS troubles on NetBSD clients with RH 6.0 Linux.
To: None <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Domi <d@d.tj>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 05/16/1999 22:02:32
> 
> On Sun, 16 May 1999 11:08:29 -0700 
>  Brian D Chase <bdc@world.std.com> wrote:
> 
>  > Nevermind.  Answered my own question.  I just forced the NetBSD clients to
>  > use NFSv2.  NetBSD is suppose to fail over to NFSv2 if v3 isn't supported
>  > on the server's side.  I think something is getting mucked up somewhere in
>  > how this is handled.
> 
> It falls back if a v3 mount request is rejected.  If Linux thought a v3
> mount request was okay, well... the fallback doesn't work very well in
> that case, and Linux is obviously buggy :-)

There are known problems with the knfsd package delivered with RH 6.0. My
solution was removing the package and installing Red Hat 5.2
nfs-server|client packages.

> 
>         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>

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