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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