Re: NFS Linux <-> BSD/OS 4.0?

Barrett G. Lyon (blyon@netpr.com)
Thu, 01 Apr 1999 21:45:44 -0600


At 10:54 AM 4/1/99 +0200, you wrote:
>On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 12:44:06PM -0600, Barrett G. Lyon wrote:
>> I have been running a BSD/OS 4.0 machine as an NFS server for a while and i
>> would like to mount it's fs on my AlphaLinux systems. When I try to mount
>> the correcly configured exports (from the BSD box) on my Linux machine
>> (running 2.2.5) I seem to get the following error.
>>
>> boxname:/proc/sys/fs#> mount -t nfs xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:/usr/exportfs /tmpmnt
>> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on
>> xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:/usr/exportfs,
>> or too many mounted file systems
>>
>> boxname:/proc/sys/fs#> cat super-max
>> 256
>> boxname:/proc/sys/fs#> cat super-nr
>> 7
>>
>> Not a lot of people have any feedback for me on this issue, I can't tell if
>> it's an NFS problem or a kernel problem. I'm running the most 'current'
>> rpm of NFS; 2.2beta37-1 provided by RedHat. Any help would be great.
>>
>
> Stupid question : have you enabled NFS support in your kernel ?
Stupid answer: Sure is CONFIG_NFS_FS=y
I with the same machine I have mounted exports from other Linux based NFS
servers with the same client. I think the responce when trying to mount a
nfs would be like 'mount: fs type nfs not supported by kernel' or something
to that nature.

-Barrett

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