Messages in this thread |  | | From | Neil Brown <> | Date | Tue, 11 Sep 2001 17:06:26 +1000 (EST) | Subject | Re: nfs is stupid ("getfh failed") |
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On Friday September 7, lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk wrote: > Michael Rothwell wrote: > > server# tail /var/log/messages > > Sep 6 09:37:43 gateway rpc.mountd: authenticated mount request from > > 192.168.1.133:933 for /export (/export) > > Sep 6 09:37:43 gateway rpc.mountd: getfh failed: Operation not permitted > > I'm seeing this message quite often with one Linux 2.4.7 system > automounting another. As long as A has B's filesystem mounted, all is > ok. Then A times out, unmounts, and later wants to remount B's > filesystem. Then, sometimes, I see a message much like yours. > > It doesn't seem to need a reboot to cause this problem, and the fix I > have found is to kill and restart the NFS server: /etc/init.d/nfs > restart. > > I have no idea why it happens, or why restarting nfsd or mountd fixes it.
Show me your /etc/exports....
If you export a directory and a subdirectory of that directory - both on the same filesysem, you can get this. If you export a directory to both an IP address (or subnet) and a hostname (or wildcard or netgroup) this can also happen.
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