Re: strange nfs behavior in 2.2.18 and 2.4.0-test12

["Charles Wilkins" <chas@pcscs.com>]

I can confirm this problem exists in Mandrake-7.2 as well with kernel
2.2.17-21.

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Covici" <covici@ccs.covici.com>
To: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 1:37 PM
Subject: strange nfs behavior in 2.2.18 and 2.4.0-test12


> Hi.  I am having strange nfs problems in both my 2.x and 2.4.0-test12
> kernels.
>
> What is happening is that when the machine boots up and exports the
> directories for nfs, it complains that
>
> ccs2:/ invalid argument .
>
> The exports entry is
>
> / ccs2(rw,no_root_squash)
>
> Now in Kernel 2.2.18, if I stop and restart the nfs daemons, all is
> OK, the invalid argument goes away, but in 2.4.0 I cannot get this to
> work at all and so I cannot mount nfs from a client on the ccs2 box.
> I am using the utilities 0.2.1-4 from the Debian distribution if that
> makes any difference.  I did an strace once on exportfs and it was
> having trouble with the call to nfsservctl which returns invalid argument.
>
>
> Any assistance would be appreciated.
>
> --
>          John Covici
>          covici@ccs.covici.com
>
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