Re: [Vserver] Abnormal NFS behaviour

From: Ben Green <ben_at_bristolwireless.net>
Date: Wed 27 Jun 2007 - 10:44:41 BST
Message-ID: <op.tukqorah0bw284@spinach.lan>

On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 10:02:56 +0100, Jim Wight <j.k.wight@ncl.ac.uk> wrote:

> I have upgraded a host and transferred its services into a guest; both
> run CentOS 5. Two other (Fedora Core 4) guests remain unchanged. Since
> the change, NFS mounting fails to work in any of the guests. The new one
> uses ccapabilities with SECURE_MOUNT, SECURE_REMOUNT and BINARY_MOUNT,
> while the other two use CAP_SYS_ADMIN. I am using 2.6.20.11-vs2.2.0 with
> util-vserver 0.30.213.
>I have discovered, though, that NFS mounting works in the guests if the
> host runs as an NFS server (with no exports).
>What could be responsible for this abnormal behaviour? I can't think of
> anything I have done differently this time.
>Jim

Is the NFS server a vserver guest or standalone machine?

If a guest is the NFS server, have you tried using a user space NFS server such as nfs-user-server or unfs3?

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