NFS Not Mounting at Boot
I've tried to set up NFS on two different networks, recently, and
have had a hard time getting nfs shares to mount automatically at
boot. In a recent example, both client and server are Debian systems
that use official packages for NFS.
For the client, I've got a Debian 3.1 system running 2.4.27-2-386 #1
with nfs-common 1.0.6-3.1 and portmap 5-9. For the server, I've got a
Debian 3.0 system running 2.4.27 with nfs-common 1.0-2woody3 and nfs-
kernel-server 1.0-2woody3.
Here's the relevant line in /etc/fstab of the client:
nfs-server:/var/nfs-test /var/nfs-test nfs
noac,wsize=8192,rsize=8192 0 0
It's not that nfs won't mount at all; it just won't mount on boot. I
don't see any errors in the logs on the client other than the warning
about statd running as root recommending chowning /var/lib/nfs/sm to
a different user. As far as I can tell /etc/exports is configured
correctly on the server.
The workaround for the time being is to have an /etc/init.d/rc.local
file linked at /etc/rc2.d/S45rc.local that has the single line:
mount /var/nfs-test
This works fine. I can otherwise run the same thing at any point
after boot, and that works fine, too. I do notice that at boot, the
server is not recording authentication from the client, whereas it
does if I mount manually or explicitly.
From what I've read (NFS-HOWTO, for instance), this should "just
work". Am I overlooking anything from a configuration standpoint or
any other potential sources of errors?
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Thomas F. O'Connell
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