Re: Text-based mount interface breaking non-UDP mounts

[Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>]

Chuck Lever wrote:
> On Apr 25, 2008, at 7:55 PM, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 06:13:03PM -0400, Chuck Lever wrote:
>>> I just tried this specific use case.
>>>
>>> Because of the local packet filtering on the client, the kernel's RPC
>>> client is getting -EPERM when trying to send the initial rpcbind
>>> request.
>>>
>>> As far as I can see, nothing in the RPC client knows how to deal
>>> specifically with that error code, so it punts the request, and the
>>> mount fails.
>>>
>>> When I originally tested mount protocol/version negotiation, I used only
>>> server-side filtering.
>>
>> I checked the original bug report, and indeed it seems that the
>> blocking was
>> on the client there as well. I'll ask the user to check what happens
>> when the filtering is done server-side instead.
>>
>> There's also http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=476128,
>> but I believe that's a different bug.
> 
> 
> FYI: Steve Dickson (nfs-utils maintainer) is already looking at removing
> EACCES from the list of temporary errors, so yes, we're aware of that
> issue.
Actually it has been removed already...

steved.