NFS-root mounting problem

[Jakob Oestergaard]

Hello all,

The problem has now been solved, and I have a node booting happily with
root-NFS.  (And swapping over NFS too!)

It turns out, that using DNS names in the exports file on the server,
"sort-of works often unless when you don't expect it to fail".

So in case anyone runs into the "Stale NFS file handle" horrors,
double-check your exports file on the server and make sure that it
contains nothing but IP addresses and IP subnets.

I actually created a ramdisk, because I thought the problem was NFS-root
related. The ramdisk showed the exact same problem though (which is only
natural, I guess, now that the real cause is known).

NFS-root rocks - yippie !  ;)

Thanks for all the help, both on-list and off-list,

Cheers,

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