[CentOS] NFS Mount - RH7.3 Server - CentOS 4.1 Client

Thu Sep 29 13:05:37 UTC 2005
Tom Brown <tom.brown at goodtechnology.com>

> Is the server exporting the mount point via NFSv3 or NFSv2?
> 
> There is an issue with more recent RedHat based mount versions (since at 
> least FC1) not falling back to trying NFSv2 if the NFSv3 mount fails.
> 
> Can you mount using '-o nfsvers=2' (using the CentOS4 mount binary)

interesting...

# mount -o nfsvers=2 /mnt/cvs/

works fine using the mount binary from the CentOS4 box -

thanks for that tip