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From: Jakob Oestergaard <jakob@unthought.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: NFS-root NFS mouting problem
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 15:14:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020701131407.GA19843@unthought.net> (raw)


Hi,

I'm trying to net-boot a system (root NFS) here, but I run into trouble
mounting NFS filesystems *after* the root filesystem has been mounted
(over NFS).

Both server and client are 2.4.18 on i686 - everything works great if I
boot from a disk and mount the home filesystem via. NFS.

Booting the client via. pxelinux, the following happens:
*) Kernel loads, gets IP, ...
*) / is mounted (rw) via NFS
*) Init-scripts start running, brings up eth0, lo, portmapper, syslog,
NFS locking services, all is ok...
*) Init-scripts attempt to mount the home filesystem from the server,
just like it would if booting from the disk. This fails with the
following errors:
--------------------------
Mounting NFS filesystems:  exec: Stale NFS handle
mount: Stale NFS handle
exec: Stale NFS handle

touch: creating '/var/lock/subsys/netfs': Stale NFS handle

Mounting other filesystems:  exec: Stale NFS handle
dup2: Bad file descriptor
exec: Stale NFS handle
--------------------------

I tried net-booting to single-user mode, which works perfectly well.
Then, mounting *any* NFS filesystem will lock the system with stale NFS
handles again.

The *really* interesting thing is, that after one such failed attempt, I
must re-start the NFS *server*, otherwise the client gets a "Root-NFS
server returned error -13 while mounting /netboot/falcon"...  But I
suppose this problem will go away with the first one.

Anything I can try ?   Any ideas ?  Need more information ?

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