Hi: I am using a system where we do not use the /proc/nfs/nfsd filesystem (due to several reasons). I understand that without this filesystem, nfsutils does not use the "new cache" mechanism. However, a nfsd restart operation should still be functional. However, when I try doing this manually, I get the following error: root:my_node:/etc/rc.d/init.d# /sbin/service nfs restart Shutting down NFS mountd: [ OK ] Shutting down NFS daemon: [FAILED] Shutting down NFS services: [ OK ] Starting NFS services: [ OK ] Starting NFS daemon: [FAILED] Starting NFS mountd: [ OK ] And the kernel log says: [13:37:37.766844] nfsd: Could not allocate memory read-ahead cache. This issue is happening on an intel platform. However, this same operation succeeds on our mips platform (without nfsd filesystem). What is also interesting is that once I turn on /proc/fs/nfsd filesystem on Intel, the issue seems to go away. Several weeks back, I reported an issue regarding exportfs -a failure on an already exported filesystem when nfsd FS was not used. It turned out to be a bug in the nfsutils. Did we bump into another bug here? Is there no other option but to turn on nfsd filesystem? Thanks for whoever responds to this ... Cheers, Ani -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
