Hello, so about the same problem quota/ rpc.quotad has with the export root. I had that already. I will simply try it by installing the server os into another vm. Best Regards Christof On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 11:21:51AM +0800, Ian Kent wrote: > On Thu, 2016-04-28 at 10:56 +0800, Ian Kent wrote: > > > > > > Another question: What is your expectation in a situation where only > > > IPv6 is available, no IPv4 for the server ? Is the one mentioned in > > > #25 of > > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=737679 > > > expected to be still a working solution ? I might have an NFS server > > > soon > > > which, due to a routing conflict difficult to resolve, would only > > > get > > > an IPv6 address visible to the clients. I should test this case with > > > a > > > dedicated vm as server anyway ... > > > > I think we've covered that above. > > Actually, maybe not. > > There's a rather long story associated with the use of NFSv4 and the the > associated server mount (or export) path. > > It depends on kernel version and nfs-utils version. > > Put simply Linux NFS originally only allowed the use of "/" for NFSv4 > mounts but autofs couldn't work out if a translation was needed because > of limited information available from the server. > > So Linux NFS was changed to behave like other implementations and allow > the same paths as is used in NFSv3 (and v2). That has the benefit of > allowed for consistent fall back from v4 to v3 as well. > > > > > The scenario in that bug shows autofs behaving as expected due to lack > > of IPv6 support in glibc I think. > > > > I hope that the autofs ppa version will perform the mount fine, as > > long > > as the server is responding but that's one thing we're here to sort > > out, > > ;) > > > > Ian > > -- > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe autofs" in -- Dr. rer. nat. Christof Köhler email: c.koehler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Universitaet Bremen/ BCCMS phone: +49-(0)421-218-62334 Am Fallturm 1/ TAB/ Raum 3.12 fax: +49-(0)421-218-62770 28359 Bremen PGP: http://www.bccms.uni-bremen.de/cms/people/c_koehler/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe autofs" in