the nfs mount in core2 uses nfs v3 by default.. This breaks mounting with older version and with systems running other distributions that only support v2... Ahh and also, the nfs(5) man page says that v2 is the default.. while this is clearly not the case on core2.
The man page needs fixing. Mounting nfsv3 by default makes a lot of sense as v2 cannot handle large files.
might be nice if the mounting still worked if the server doesnt handle v3 (like most current linux distributions....)
(It seems like it defaults to whatever the running kernel will support - could be 2, 3, or 4.) Patch added to CVS for the next util-linux package.
Any chance of a new util-linux SRPM in development now that FC3-test1 has shipped? Thanks, Huw
The nfs mount command is broken. Starting up a RH server with the --no-nfs-version 3 mountd argument causes the mount command to fail instead of "dialing down" to version 2 as it should. It turns out there are two problems. Although mountd is not accepting v3 requests, the kernel is still advertising a v3 service (because it still registers the v3 service with the portmapper). So the mount cmd will rpc ping the v3 server which will work, but fail with it tries to get a v3 filehandle from mountd (which causes the entire mount to fail). So the mount command should handle this type of failure and the server should not be advertising v3 service when its mound is not.
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Status update from steved?
NEEDINFO_ENG has been deprecated in favor of NEEDINFO or ASSIGNED. Changing status to ASSIGNED for ENG review.
Uh, this seems like it's still an active issue as of at least March 2006. Moving release to "devel" so someone can sort out if it's been resolved. (I think not, the man page in util-linux-2.13-0.28 from rawhide right now still specifies v2 as the default.)
This should be fixed in the latest version of util-linux
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