Bug#637461: nfs-common: some more information
Package: nfs-common
Version: 1:1.2.2-4
Severity: normal
How are your network interfaces configured? ifupdown, Network Manager,
wicd?
Ben.
Dear Ben,
There is actually some progresses...
Would you mind if we start to talk about NFS-common and nfs-kernel-server more generally? Both are linked together somehow.
I would like more to understand about the issue. OK. If you take the time, maybe we could understand more about the reported problem.
You know I am not an expert user with Linux, so I can type all commands you would like to get more input/info.
OK, in the server I had I have used squeeze which was as testing. The issue was that the server NFS had to be restarted often
/etc/init.d/nfs-kernel... restart
OK
then the stations could mount it : mount /mnt/pictures
went ok if I restart it.
You might have said taht my server was not well installed. I might disagree since I did all good stuffs from server install to install the NFS.
Or maybe the order?
So it was not possible to mount at boot of the station.
- well. recently
I had a hdd crash, that died, and I had to fight, and had got to reinstall the server. Fine. ;) Interesting
+
the debian testing went to stable. OK, even more interesting
So I installed the NFS server with debian stable (squeeze). It should actually give the same errors right?
Install from server. no packages.
then
apt-get install nfs-kernel... portmap nfs-common
and then the rest
and ...
so now the stations can mount hte NFS server at BOOT.
So why?
my idea could be :
1) you changed something
or
2) the first insatllation : apt-get install nfs-kernel-server portmap nfs-common
is good
or
3)
my exports is not ideal
currently I use:
$ cat /etc/exports:
#/home 192.168.1.*(rw,sync)
#/pictures 192.168.1.*(rw,sync)
/home 192.168.1.0/24(rw,sync,root_squash,no_subtree_check)
# /mnt/pictures 192.168.1.0/24(rw,sync,root_squash)
/mnt/pictures 192.168.1.*(rw,sync,fsid=0,crossmnt,no_subtree_check)
##/mnt/pictures/uploads *(rw,sync,fsid=0,crossmnt,no_subtree_check)
#/mnt/applications 192.168.1.0/24(ro,root_squash)
/mnt/applications 192.168.1.*(ro,sync,fsid=0,crossmnt,no_subtree_check)
#*****************************************
well, another important problem
If I have :
/mnt/pictures 192.168.1.*(rw,sync,fsid=0,crossmnt,no_subtree_check)
/mnt/applications 192.168.1.*(ro,sync,fsid=0,crossmnt,no_subtree_check)
the stationc cannot mount /mnt/applications
the stations says it is mounted fine, both pictures and applications
but the content of /mnt/applications is similar to /mnt/torrents on the station
it seems that the stations mounting from /etc/fstab is always teh same as /mnt/pictures.
That's a problem that I never encountered anytime, althoguh after about 10 years of use of linux.
I wonder. I do not understand.
Finally, concerning speed of network:
192.168.1.* <------------ works well in this newer NFS SERVER, but however I have doubts that it could be bit slow
* <---------- is extremely fast but could be dangerous
192.168.1.0/24 <----------- is it still possible in this NFS of the current debian stable?
Could it be possible that it has some effects of the speed on data transferts between server and statiosn?
It was just an impression when using the NFS station...
Well, I am glad that the station can mount the NFS server at boot, but there are few things that we could bit discuss if you have some time...
Thank you of coding NFS ! I send you greetings,
Best regards,
Yellow
A relative newbie with Linux
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.2
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages nfs-common depends on:
ii adduser 3.112+nmu2 add and remove users and groups
ii initscripts 2.88dsf-13.1 scripts for initializing and shutt
ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libcap2 1:2.19-3 support for getting/setting POSIX.
ii libcomerr2 1.41.12-4stable1 common error description library
ii libevent-1.4-2 1.4.13-stable-1 An asynchronous event notification
ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.8.3+dfsg-4squeeze1 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - k
ii libgssglue1 0.1-4 mechanism-switch gssapi library
ii libk5crypto3 1.8.3+dfsg-4squeeze1 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - C
ii libkrb5-3 1.8.3+dfsg-4squeeze1 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii libnfsidmap2 0.23-2 An nfs idmapping library
ii librpcsecgss3 0.19-2 allows secure rpc communication us
ii libwrap0 7.6.q-19 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii lsb-base 3.2-23.2squeeze1 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii netbase 4.45 Basic TCP/IP networking system
ii portmap 6.0.0-2 RPC port mapper
ii ucf 3.0025+nmu1 Update Configuration File: preserv
nfs-common recommends no packages.
nfs-common suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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