NFS-root mounting problem

[Jakob Oestergaard]

On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 01:15:02PM +0200, Bogdan Costescu wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Jakob Oestergaard wrote:
> 
> > Ok - I tried many variations on this, to no avail.
> 
> Have you tried setting the "noauto" option for the root FS in /etc/fstab ?
> IIRC, that's all that I did for a cluster based on RH 7.2, no modification 
> in the rc files (of course that means I get an error of not being able to 
> run 'fsck.nfs' on each boot).

Just tried it, it does not help.

> 
> > One thing that I stumbled across was, that it is always mounted as
> > NFSv2, while both client and server support NFSv3.
> 
> And "nolock" too, by default. OTOH, I deemed NFSv3 unnecessary for the 
> client root FS that I created: it's mostly for reading anyway and there 
> are no files larger than 2 GB...

The NFSv3 issued turned out to be that the kernel root-NFS flags are
slightly different from the fstab flags.  You need "v3" instead of
"nfsvers=3" in the nfs-root flags...

nolock is default on the system here...

Thanks for you help,

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