[PLUG] nfs question

Anthony Schlemmer aschlemm at attbi.com
Fri May 10 20:37:56 UTC 2002


What NFS mount options do you usually use? I tend to use soft,bg,intr in 
my /etc/fstab entries for my NFS mounts.

Tony

On Friday 10 May 2002 06:14 am, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On 10 May 2002, josh wrote:
> > I'm having a problem with nfs that isn't mentioned in any of the
> > documentation I've found.
> > I try to mount filesystems at boot time with no success.
> > I try to mount filesystems with 'mount -a' and I get: nfs server
> > reported service unavailable: Address already in use
>
> Josh,
>
>   I believe that this is a problem with nfs, and I've had the same
> problem for a while now, too. When I reboot one of my machines it
> does not automatically mount the three exported file systems from the
> other workstation.
>
>   After I get a prompt, I log in as root, mount the filesystmes via
> nfs (by simply typing 'mount /mnt/usrx' where the x is 2, 3, and 4.
> Then I log out and log back in as a user. For as little as I reboot,
> it works. Oh, another thing: on the rebooted server I have to
> explicitly stop then start nfs to enable the other workstation to
> communicate with its nfs-mounted filesystems exported by the rebooted
> workstation. Yes, nfs supposedly was invoked during the boot process,
> but ....
>
> HTH,
>
> Rich
>
>
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Anthony Schlemmer
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>>>>This machine was last rebooted:   4 days 14:18 hours ago<<





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