Subject: Re: Strange mountd and NFS export behavior, NetBSD/i386 1.5.
To: Brian Chase <bdc@world.std.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: tech-net
Date: 02/07/2001 10:07:52
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 03:54:35PM -0500, Brian Chase wrote:
> I tried stoping and restarting mountd, in addition to initially shutting
> down mountd, nfsd, and then rpcbind.  That was before I realized that it
> was just a problem with mountd and not the NFS subsystem in general.
> Other systems which already had home mounted were fine.
> 
> I tried running mountd with the -d option, but that really didn't give any
> useful info.  The output was extremely terse.
> 
> FWIW, the server's filesystem (oreo:/home) is a large LFS filesystem
> (~60GB). Earlier this morning I rebooted the system.  This cleared the
> problem.  I think there may be something funny going on between LFS (maybe

Ho, don't NFS-export an LFS filesystem ! This won't work for now.
The cleaner things in the back of the NFS daemon, which confuses it.
You can eventually corrupt your filesystem this way.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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