Mike wrote: For a client with an NFS root and no other NFS mounts, is it necessary to have the utilities found in the Debian nfs-common package <http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/nfs-common>? Seems to be working fine without. The only thing you might need is the mount command, mount.nfs. This isn't used by the kernel for the root mount, but might be needed later for a remount in user space. There's also the unmount command, but presumably you won't be using that. And showmount, which isn't essential. And the nfs(5) man page. The mount command also might be needed to update /etc/mtab if you don't have it linked to /proc. Does "mount" return the expected results? I'm told by an expert that Ubuntu doesn't use the kernel root mount, but bounces the initial mount up to user space in the initrd. So you probably do need nfs-common for Ubuntu. Apparently Debian hasn't done this if it's working for you. -- 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
