Hi Neil, > On Fri, 07 May 2021, Petr Vorel wrote: > > Hi Neil, > > > [[This is a proposed fix. It seems to work. I'd like > > > some review comments before it is committed. > > > Petr: it would be great if you could test it to confirm > > > it actually works in your case. > > > ]] > > Thanks for a quick fix. It runs nicely in newer kernels (5.11.12-1-default > > openSUSE and 5.10.0-6-amd64 Debian). But it somehow fails on older ones > > (SLES 5.3.18-54-default heavily patched and 4.9.0-11-amd64). > > I have some problem on Debian with 4.9.0-11-amd64 fails on both tmpfs and ext4, > > others work fine (testing tmpfs, btrfs and ext4). But maybe I did something > > wrong during testing. I did: > > cp ./utils/mountd/mountd /usr/sbin/rpc.mountd > > systemctl restart nfs-mountd.service > That is the correct procedure. It should work... Thanks for a confirmation. > > Failure is regardless I use new mount.nfs (master) or the original from > > Debian (1.3.3). > What error message do you get on failure? It might help to add "-v" to > the mount command to see more messages. +1. I'll add it to the tests (+ printing mount.nfs version). Here is debug info (when using nfs-utils 2.5.3 - master, with your patch): * NFSv3 on ext4 (OK) nfs01 1 TINFO: setup NFSv3, socket type tcp nfs01 1 TINFO: Mounting NFS: mount -v -t nfs -o proto=tcp,vers=3 10.0.0.2:/var/tmp/LTP_nfs01.14F4lC51P6/3/tcp /var/tmp/LTP_nfs01.14F4lC51P6/3/0 mount.nfs: trying 10.0.0.2 prog 100003 vers 3 prot TCP port 2049 mount.nfs: trying 10.0.0.2 prog 100005 vers 3 prot TCP port 58997 mount.nfs: timeout set for Thu May 13 08:22:46 2021 mount.nfs: trying text-based options 'proto=tcp,vers=3,addr=10.0.0.2' mount.nfs: prog 100003, trying vers=3, prot=6 mount.nfs: prog 100005, trying vers=3, prot=6 nfs01 1 TINFO: starting 'nfs01_open_files 10' * NFSv3 on tmpfs (OK) nfs01 1 TINFO: setup NFSv3, socket type tcp nfs01 1 TINFO: Mounting NFS: mount -v -t nfs -o proto=tcp,vers=3 10.0.0.2:/tmp/LTP_nfs01.oJEz2xd9ZI/3/tcp /tmp/LTP_nfs01.oJEz2xd9ZI/3/0 mount.nfs: trying 10.0.0.2 prog 100003 vers 3 prot TCP port 2049 mount.nfs: trying 10.0.0.2 prog 100005 vers 3 prot TCP port 58997 mount.nfs: timeout set for Thu May 13 08:23:01 2021 mount.nfs: trying text-based options 'proto=tcp,vers=3,addr=10.0.0.2' mount.nfs: prog 100003, trying vers=3, prot=6 mount.nfs: prog 100005, trying vers=3, prot=6 nfs01 1 TINFO: starting 'nfs01_open_files 10' * NFSv4.1 on tmpfs (FAIL) nfs01 1 TINFO: setup NFSv4.1, socket type tcp nfs01 1 TINFO: Mounting NFS: mount -v -t nfs -o proto=tcp,vers=4.1 10.0.0.2:/tmp/LTP_nfs01.QnnFGEV4rs/4.1/tcp /tmp/LTP_nfs01.QnnFGEV4rs/4.1/0 mount.nfs: mount(2): No such file or directory mount.nfs: mounting 10.0.0.2:/tmp/LTP_nfs01.QnnFGEV4rs/4.1/tcp failed, reason given by server: No such file or directory mount.nfs: timeout set for Thu May 13 08:23:02 2021 mount.nfs: trying text-based options 'proto=tcp,vers=4.1,addr=10.0.0.2,clientaddr=10.0.0.1' nfs01 1 TBROK: mount command failed nfs01 1 TINFO: Cleaning up testcase > > strace looks nearly the same on tmpfs and ext4: > This shows mount.nfs connecting to rpcbind, sending a request, getting a > reply, and maybe looping around and trying again? > There doesn't seem to be anything kernel related that would affect > anything there so I cannot think why on older kernel would make a > difference. Or an older rpcbind... Well, it uses 1.2.5-0.3+deb10u1, i.e. nearly the latest version (Steve released 1.2.6 3 days ago). And it's the same version as in openSUSE Tumbleweed where it works well. > Maybe I'll experiment on a SLE12 kernel. Thanks! > NeilBrown Kind regards, Petr