Hi, the question in short: How can I boot a diskless client with nfsroot and let it mount its /var directory via NFS, with locking enabled? We did this with SLES 10 so far: - boot the client and let it mount / read-only from the server - start portmap on the client - execute sth. like "mount -o rw,lock server:/<clientip>/var /var" Then we had file locking in /var on the client, and on every NFS directory we mounted on the client afterwards. With SLES 11 (kernel 2.6.27) we switched from portmap to rpcbind and things fail, because rpcbind creates a lock file and a socket in /var/run, so we need a writeable /var before we can mount /var. So we first create a tmpfs for /var, start rpcbind, then mount the clients /var directory via NFS from the server over the tmpfs. Then we try to restart rpcbind so that it can recreate the socket in /var/run, but it fails. It doesn't create the socket file, and after about 60 seconds says: rpcbind: server localhost not responding, timed out lockd: cannot monitor our_server lockd: failed to monitor our_server So it seems we cannot mount a nfs directory on a tmpfs /var when this /var is already used by rpcbind and its socket. What can we do? Is /var as nfs directory with locking no longer possible with nfsroot and rpcbind? cu, Frank -- Dipl.-Inform. Frank Steiner Web: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/ Lehrstuhl f. Bioinformatik Mail: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/m/ LMU, Amalienstr. 17 Phone: +49 89 2180-4049 80333 Muenchen, Germany Fax: +49 89 2180-99-4049 * Rekursion kann man erst verstehen, wenn man Rekursion verstanden hat. * ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs _______________________________________________ Please note that nfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx is being discontinued. Please subscribe to linux-nfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx instead. http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#linux-nfs -- 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
