In nfs(5), the mountvers option is described as:

  The RPC version number used to contact the server's mountd.  If this
option is not specified, the client uses a version number appropriate to
the requested NFS version.  This option is useful when multiple NFS
services are running on the same remote server host.

The question is, why are you specifying the *mount RPC version* instead
of specifying the NFS protocol version and letting mount figure out the
mountd version to use on its own?  It's not that mount.nfs doesn't allow
'mountvers=n', it's that it doesn't want you to use mountvers=*2* here.
Other values of 'n' work just fine, as does specifying an NFS protocol
version with 'nfsvers=' instead.

This probably is a bug (unless there happens to be some reason that
mount version 2 has been deliberately disabled as insecure or
dangerous?), but it looks to me like best practices would be to not use
this option at all.

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  /sbin/mount.nfs doesn't understand mount option mountvers=n

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