Hi We have a fileserver here which gives us problems: when a lot of people are using a particular filesystem from that server (which is a partition on that server), the client machines start to unmount that filesystem and it becomes impossible to remount. The error message when trying to remount is "bad block or too many filesystems mounted". The server is a Redhat 6.0 machine and the rpm for nfsd, mountd and quotad daemons is knfsd-1.4.6-2. Is there a limit to the number of client machines the server can supply with its filesystems? And how is that limit reached? All the machines mount the filesystems happily, but it is only when people are logged in and actively using a particular filesystem that the mounts start dropping. So it seems it is not the number of machines that mount which matters but the degree of active use of a filesystem. If this is the case, can something be done about to stop filesystems unmounting? The second problem, possibly related to the first, is that the rpc.rquotad daemon keeps stopping. There is also an often repeated message in /var/log/messages: Apr 11 12:03:16 kidna kernel: nfsd Security: /// bad export. I checked the /etc/exports file - everything is normal. I also checked the /etc/hosts file where it maps the IP addresses in the export files to computer names - that file is correct and there are no erroneous entries in there. Does anyone have any idea how the three problems may be related - the stopping of the rpc.quotad daemon, the message "bad export" and the dropping of mounts? Any help will be most appreciated. Thanks Hugo -- Dr Hugo Bouckaert - Systems Administrator, Computer Science UWA Tel: +(61 8) 9380 2878 / Fax: +(61 8) 9380 1089 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Web: http://www.cs.uwa.edu.au/~hugo -====---====---====---====---====---====---====---====---====---====---====- to unsubscribe email "unsubscribe linux-admin" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] See the linux-admin FAQ: http://www.kalug.lug.net/linux-admin-FAQ/
