On Wednesday 27 Oct 2010 06:37:29 John Cooper wrote: > My icybox died recently and I've just replaced it with a Netgear > readynas duo 2110 1GB disc* . It runs Debian Sarge. I am really pleased > with it. Very easy to configure through the web interface, but it also > has a Linux application on the CD. >
I'm guessing that you mean a 1 TB disk not a 1GB disk....! What do you think of it? It looks like a good buy. > I tried to change the NFS mount from v3 to v4 but it would not mount, > "operation not permitted". > > sudo mount -t nfs4 -o rw,hard,intr,bg backupserver:/ /archive > > After adding the SSH addon (see below) and logging on, I had to add > "fsid=0" to /etc/exports > > "/backup" *(fsid=0,insecure,insecure_locks,rw,async) > > which defines the NFS v4 pseudo-filesystem root (only define one at the > top level). You then only need to mount the root "backupserver:/" in v4, > which in my config actually mounts the NAS /backup directory. I don't think NFSv3 is that common so I'm not surprised it isn't supported out of the box. -- Adam Trickett Overton, HANTS, UK The animals are not as stupid as one thinks - they have neither doctors nor lawyers. -- L Doquier -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------