Re: (was: nfs-utils-1.1.3 released)

[Paul Collins <paul-dsjeNyW6Qm/D+ROgJ3VA+kB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org>]

Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> writes:

> On Aug 3, 2008, at 11:10 AM, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 12:37:19AM +1200, Paul Collins wrote:
>>> "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> writes:
>>>
>>>> On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 11:15:33PM +1000, An=C3=ADbal Monsalve Sal=
azar
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 03:13:19AM -0400, Steve Dickson wrote:
>>>>>> I just cut the 1.1.3 nfs-utils release. Unfortunately I'm having
>>>>>> issues accessing my kernel.org account so for the moment the
>>>>>> tar ball is only available on SourceForge:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>    http://sourceforge.net/projects/nfs
>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>
>>>>> 1.1.3 clients don't work with a 1.0.10 server anymore.
>>>>
>>>> Very weird--it might make sense if upgrading nfs-utils broke the
>>>> mount
>>>> itself, but here it seems the mount is succeeding and subsequent
>>>> file
>>>> access (which I'd expect to only involve the in-kernel client
>>>> code) is
>>>> failing.  Maybe there's some difference in the mount options?
>>>> What does
>>>> /proc/self/mounts say?  I assume these are all v2 or v3 mounts?
>>>
>>> I discovered today that I was no longer able to write to the v3
>>> mount on
>>> my 1.1.2 server.  I checked /proc/mounts and noticed sec=3Dnull on =
the
>>> mount.  Either adding sec=3Dsys to the client's mount options or
>>> downgrading to nfs-common 1.1.2 on the client fixes the problem.
>>
>> That would do it!
>>
>> So it sounds like there's a bug that causes mount.nfs to get the
>> default
>> mount options wrong?
>
> I'm not sure I'm following this.  I can't think of a user-space
> mount.nfs change in 1.1.3 that would affect the sec=3D option.
>
> Paul, which kernel are you running on your clients?

Either 2.6.26 or 2.6.27-rc1+.  I'll double-check.

Whichever one it was, the problem was present with 1.1.3 installed, and
not present with 1.1.2 installed.

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Paul Collins
Wellington, New Zealand

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