Re: possible cause of horrifically unreliable NFS?

2009-03-23 Thread Roger Heflin
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 4:46 PM, David Burns wrote: > On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Robert P. J. Day > wrote: >>  what is the most common cause of NFS bouncing back and forth between >> OK and "not responding"?  should i be messing with the mount options? > > 2 prime causes of NFS problems fo

Re: possible cause of horrifically unreliable NFS?

2009-03-23 Thread David Burns
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >  what is the most common cause of NFS bouncing back and forth between > OK and "not responding"?  should i be messing with the mount options? 2 prime causes of NFS problems for me are iptables and selinux. Just a guess. Dave -- fedora-l

possible cause of horrifically unreliable NFS?

2009-03-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
i have a small embedded ARM board and i'm trying to boot it off via an NFS mount point sitting on my fedora 9 system. i thought i set up NFS properly in terms of exporting a (debian flavour) root fs but, when i boot, i get numerous diagnostic msgs of the form: VFS: Mounted root (nfs filesystem