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Neil Brown wrote thus:
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Sometimes the client will get a permission denied on attempting to mount from the server even though it managed it a few hours earlier with no change to config of the server.
Restarting the nfs server gives a line of the form:
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clienthostname: Invalid argument
What does your
/etc/exportsfile look like? Does it have both host
names and IP addresses? Do you export both a directory and an ancestor of that directory on the same filesystem?Both of these can cause this sort of problem.
Thank you! It was exporting both a directory and an ancestor. Can we have something which screams/shouts/warns/rejects this rather than failing in an evil and confusing way?
(oh and add it to the NFS FAQ)
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What version of nfs-utils is in SuSE 8.1?
showmount -v
showmount for nfs-utils 0.3.3
Dave
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Quoted 16 lines · On Thursday March 13, [email protected] wrote:
Neil Brown wrote thus:
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Sometimes the client will get a permission denied on attempting to mount from the server even though it managed it a few hours earlier with no change to config of the server.
Restarting the nfs server gives a line of the form:
clienthostname: Invalid argument
What does your
/etc/exportsfile look like? Does it have both host names and IP addresses?
Do you export both a directory and an ancestor of that directory on the same filesystem?
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Both of these can cause this sort of problem.
Thank you! It was exporting both a directory and an ancestor. Can we have something which screams/shouts/warns/rejects this rather than failing in an evil and confusing way?
It would be nice.... but I'm currently more interested in getting nfs-utils to support the new interfaces in 2.5...
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(oh and add it to the NFS FAQ)
Isn't it there??? Should be added then.
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What version of nfs-utils is in SuSE 8.1?
showmount -v
showmount for nfs-utils 0.3.3
Thats getting a bit old. 1.0 have been out for a while and fixed the problem I hinted related to host-names and IP addresses in the same /etc/exports file.
NeilBrown
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