Subject: Re: nfs broken in net-next?

From: Suresh Jayaraman <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:53:55 +0530

On 10/29/2009 01:43 AM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> pk12-3214-189-102:~ # mount -t nfs 10.6.75.100:/data/shared/pxeboot /x
> mount.nfs: rpc.statd is not running but is required for remote locking.
> mount.nfs: Either use '-o nolock' to keep locks local, or start statd.

rpc.statd on client should have be started by mount.nfs when a nfs
filesystem is mounted. Is this not happening for some reason or do you
see any errors in syslog?

> using opensuse11.1

Are you using 11.1 betas? I know of a problem where non-root user mounts
fail to start rpc.statd in betas that got fixed later:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-nfs&m=122748525624094&w=2

Is the problem seen only recently (after updating to net-next)?

Thanks,

-- 
Suresh Jayaraman