BTW the error I was getting on the diskless system was

cannot create /etc/mtab: Invalid argument

On Oct 28, 5:53 pm, Janaka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If anyone is planning to use the Ubuntu  user space NFS server for
> servicing diskless systems,  please heed this advice.
> DONT USE IT!!!
> I just wasted some time because of a "feature" (a bug if you ask me)
> of this server where it does not handle file locking properly.
> Diskless systems have problems with this.  You can get more info from /
> usr/share/doc/nfs-user-server/README.CDF.
> In 'humble' openion  there should have been a big WARNING on this
> package description.
>
> Use the "nfs-kernel-server" instead.
>
> Cheers (after some frustration)
>   Janaka
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