Public bug reported:
The latest Ubuntu server documentation located at http://help.ubuntu.com
needs an addition. The nfs client instructions don't mention the need
for the portmap package to be installed on the client.
While the current documentation works on a clean install of Ubuntu 6.10,
the mount command can take 3 to 5 minutes before the mount completes.
It is my understanding that NFS uses RPC rather frequently, and the
fallback alternatives take a long time to negotiate when portmap isn't
installed. It took me weeks of searching for the causes of slow NFS
share mounting before I discovered this issue.
I think a comment should be added that mentions that installing the
portmap package on the NFS client machine will help shorten the time it
takes to mount a NFS share.
** Affects: Ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
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nfs server documentation needs addition
https://launchpad.net/bugs/75080
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