Hi Bruce, On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:24 AM, J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: I'm getting closer to "works". At least the way I think it should :-/. With, cat /etc/auto.master /mnt.dev /etc/auto.device /mnt.nfs /etc/auto.nfsv4 cat /etc/auto.device cd -fstype=iso9660,ro,nosuid,nodev :/dev/cdrom cat /etc/auto.nfsv4 test -fstype=nfs4,rw server.bendj.loc:/ After reboot, mount /dev/dm-1 on / type ext3 (rw,acl,user_xattr) proc on /proc type proc (rw) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw) debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw) udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620,gid=5) /dev/md0 on /boot type ext3 (rw,acl,user_xattr) /dev/dm-0 on /home type ext3 (rw,acl,user_xattr) fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw) nfsd on /proc/fs/nfsd type nfsd (rw) rpc_pipefs on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw) exportfs -v /nfs 192.168.1.0/24(ro,wdelay,root_squash,no_subtree_check,fsid=0) and the mounts ARE automounted, ls /mnt.nfs/test /mnt.dev /mnt.dev: cd/ /mnt.nfs/test: bin/ boot/ dev/ etc/ home/ lib/ lib64/ lost+found/ media/ mnt/ mnt.auto/ mnt.dev/ mnt.nfs/ nfs/ opt/ proc/ root/ sbin/ selinux/ srv/ sys/ tmp/ usr/ var/ Looks like autofs mounting rahter than /etc/fstab is the way-to-go. I don't know if this means there IS a timing problem with the /etc/fstab way of doing things. Also, the /mnt.nfs/test still shows the actual SERVER root, rather than the specified NFS (ch)root. That shouldn't be happening, right? And just to check, service nfsserver restart Shutting down kernel based NFS server: nfsd statd mountd done Starting kernel based NFS server: idmapd mountd statd nfsd sm-notify done works the 1st time around. BenDJ -- 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