Re: nfs is stupid ("getfh failed")

[Jamie Lokier]

Neil Brown wrote:
> > I'm seeing this message quite often with one Linux 2.4.7 system
> > automounting another.  As long as A has B's filesystem mounted, all is
> > ok.  Then A times out, unmounts, and later wants to remount B's
> > filesystem.  Then, sometimes, I see a message much like yours.
> > 
> > It doesn't seem to need a reboot to cause this problem, and the fix I
> > have found is to kill and restart the NFS server: /etc/init.d/nfs
> > restart.
> > 
> > I have no idea why it happens, or why restarting nfsd or mountd fixes it.
> 
> Show me your /etc/exports....
> 
> If you export a directory and a subdirectory of that directory - both
> on the same filesysem, you can get this.
> If you export a directory to both an IP address (or subnet) and a
> hostname (or wildcard or netgroup) this can also happen.

Yes, I'm doing the second of those.  No alternative -- I need write
access from some hosts, and read access to all the rest (who are
dynamically allocated) on the subnet.

It's clearly a bug in the NFS server then.

-- Jamie

/etc/exports:

# I want ro granted to all hosts in the 172.30.* subnet, but rw
# granted to the machines in @aquarius_outside which is within that
# subnet.  Doesn't work, whichever order I write the lines.
# (The machines in @aquarius_hosts always get read only access).
#
# Solution, though I don't like it: write the host names explicitly.
#
# The 192.168.64.192/19 subnetwork is for temporarily assigned IPs on
# the Aquarius test network.  /kickstart is used for kickstart
# installations on machines plugged in temporarily.

/home		172.30.0.0/16(ro,root_squash) \
		galatea.degree2.com(rw,root_squash) \
		ariel.degree2.com(rw,root_squash) \
		@aquarius_hosts(rw,root_squash) \
		@aquarius_outside(rw,root_squash)

/kickstart	172.30.0.0/16(ro,root_squash) \
		@aquarius_hosts(ro,root_squash) \
		@aquarius_outside(ro,root_squash) \
		192.168.64.192/255.255.255.224(ro,root_squash)