Re: Status of mount.nfs

[Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>]

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Trond Myklebust wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 16:46 -0400, Chuck Lever wrote:
> 
>> The TCP case fails because mount.nfs is using the portmapper even though 
>> the user has specified the ports on the command line.  Could that be the 
>> root cause of the failure?
> 
> If the user specifies a port, then there is no real good reason to use
> the portmapper:

Exactly.

>       * For the case of the mount protocol, we should just try an RPC
>         call and then look at the returned RPC error values to figure
>         out which versions of the protocol are supported if it fails (or
>         alternatively, fall back to UDP if the TCP connection fails).
>       * If the mount call has succeeded and we have a port for the NFS
>         server, we should probably just try the mount call for a
>         sufficiently recent kernel, then look at the returned error
>         codes. For older kernels (pre 2.6.13?) which don't return decent
>         error values, then ping first in userland and look at the RPC
>         return values. Retry with UDP if TCP doesn't work...

I'm wondering how much of this is already implemented in mount.nfs, but 
is just broken.  I'm reviewing the code now.

I cleaned this up a little with recent patches so it should be easier to 
figure out what's going wrong.

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