Mounting NFS on Linux 2.6.x

Andrew McKay amckay at iders.ca
Mon May 1 20:57:46 UTC 2006


> I'm not sure that this is related to the crash as I have found that I am 
> having a Kernel oops in a function named nfs3_request_init in the kernel 
> itself.

As I suspected the actual problem was in the Kernel itself and a patch fix was 
released for 2.6.8 (patch-2.6.8.1).

> 
> I tried mounting NFS shares with Busybox 1.0.1 and 1.1.2 and had the 
> same results.  Is the warning message from about the mount version older 
> than kernel normal for people using Linux 2.6.x?  The Kernel source 
> lists NFS_MOUNT_VERSION as 6, and in Busybox source the 
> NFS_MOUNT_VERSION seems to be 4.

My other question still stands though.  When using busybox with Linux 2.6.x is 
it normal to see the message "nfs warning: mount version older than kernel" at 
the prompt?

Thanks,
Andrew



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