On 27 July 2014 18:25:24 CEST, "Stefan G. Weichinger" <li...@xunil.at> wrote: >Am 26.07.2014 04:47, schrieb walt: > >> So, why did the "broken" machine work normally for more than a year >> without rpcbind until two days ago? (I suppose because nfs-utils was >> updated to 1.3.0 ?) >> >> The real problem here is that I have no idea how NFS works, and each >> new version is more complicated because the devs are solving problems >> that I don't understand or even know about. > >I double your search for understanding ... my various efforts to set up >NFSv4 for sharing stuff in my LAN also lead to unstable behavior and >frustration. > >Only last week I re-attacked this topic as I start using puppet here to >manage my systems ... and one part of this might be sharing >/usr/portage >via NFSv4. One client host mounts it without a problem, the thinkpads >don't do so ... just another example ;-) > >Additional in my context: using systemd ... so there are other >(different?) dependencies at work and services started. > >I'd be happy to get that working in a reliable way. I don't remember >unstable behavior with NFS (v2 back then?) when we used it at a company >I worked for in the 90s. > >Stefan
I use NFS for filesharing between all wired systems at home. Samba is only used for MS Windows and laptops. Few things I always make sure are valid: - One partition per NFS share - No NFS share is mounted below another one - I set the version to 3 on the clients - I use LDAP for the user accounts to ensure the UIDs and GIDs are consistent. NFS4 requires all the exports to be under a single foldertree. I haven't had any issues in the past 7+ years with this and in the past 5+ years I had portage, distfiles and packages shared. /etc/portage is symlinked to a NFS share as well, allowing me to create binary packages on a single host (inside a chroot) which are then used to update the different machines. If anyone wants a more detailed description of my setup. Let me know and I will try to write something up. Kind regards Joost -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
