[Mageia-dev] Any progress on the NFS mount problem? - SOLVED

Tue Oct 2 09:46:47 CEST 2012

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+On 02/10/12 02:31, Colin Guthrie wrote:
+> 'Twas brillig, and Guillaume Rousse at 01/10/12 21:41 did gyre and 
+> gimble:
+>> With NFSv4, the server remaps its actual filesystem (/home, for 
+>> instance) in a pseudo-filesystem, which is seen by clients as a 
+>> root filesystem (/ here). Consider it as some kind of implicit 
+>> chroot.
+>> 
+>> With earlier implementations, you had to explicitely mark one of 
+>> the filesystem as the root one, and make sure every other 
+>> filesystem was reachable from it, using bind mount if needed. 
+>> You've got some more detailed explanations here: 
+>> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NFS
+>> 
+>> According to official NFS wiki, it seems this is no longer
+>> needed, and than the implementation handle it automagically for
+>> you: 
+>> http://wiki.linux-nfs.org/wiki/index.php/Nfsv4_configuration#Exporting_directories
+>>
+>>
+>>>
+>>
+>> 
+I removed 'fsid=0', restarted, and all is well.  I
+>>> can see all my data!
+>> Well, you'd better check if you're actually using NFSv4, and not
+>> a older version, if you want optimal performances.
+> 
+> FWIW, I found I needed fsid=0 on my media center's chroot export 
+> when using an NFS root boot (server + client both mga2).
+> 
+> Without fsid=0 root was mapped to 65534 which caused numerous
+> issues when booting :)
+> 
+> Never did work out the full reasons, so I probably need to read 
+> those specs a bit.
+> 
+Hmm - haven't tried rebooting since I got it going last thing
+yesterday.  Perhaps the trick is to make another mount with fsid=0?
+I'll play with this and your other suggestion in a day or two, when
+I've got over the novelty of having things working again :-D
+
+Strange, though, that things were so different in CentOS and
+Scientific Linux, both of which claimed to be using nfs4.  That's what
+caused my confusion.
+
+Anne
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