[CentOS] NFS insanity

Sun Apr 24 14:33:50 UTC 2005
Collins Richey <crichey at gmail.com>

On 4/24/05, Paul Heinlein <heinlein at madboa.com> wrote:
> On 04/24/2005 06:54 AM, Mark Weaver wrote:
> 
> > My workstation is CentOS 4. I reloaded it to get rid of the FC3
> > installation at the front of the main drive and recover some space on
> > the second drive moving CentOS to the main drive. Everything else works
> > wonderfully as advertised. The following is the only feedback I'm
> > getting when attempting to mount the share from the FC3 server. (the
> > shares on the file server mount perfectly)
> 
> In the server's /etc/exports, try adding "insecure" to the general
> option list, e.g.,
> 
> /foo/bar   192.168.10.0/24(rw,root_squash,insecure,sync)
> 
> The nfs client that ships with CentOS 4 uses a port number higher than
> 1024 by default, which isn't what most Linux systems expect.
> 

I don't know about current systems, but we have a lot of RH9 desktops
at work, and they unformly break (including kernel oops) with "sync";
we use "async" in all our exports.

-- 
 Collins
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