Probblem with NFS mount

[Rob Landley]

On Tuesday 02 May 2006 12:49 am, Michael Song wrote:
> Hello, BusyBox folks
> I have the following NFS  rootfs mount problem.
> I have verified that the server is OK, and it give write access to
> client(verified seperately with a different Linux work station) the mount
> status shows I have read and write access,
> but when I try to write to it, I got Read-only file system error

That error comes from the kernel, so the kernel thinks it's read-only.

> BusyBox v1.1.2 (2006.04.29-09:07+0000) Built-in shell (ash)
> Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

This worked for some people...

> # mount
> /dev/root on / type nfs
> (rw,v2,rsize=4096,wsize=4096,hard,nolock,proto=udp,addr) proc on /proc type
> proc (rw,nodiratime)
> # touch xxx
> touch: xxx: Read-only file system

Do you have legacy mtab support enabled?  If so cat /proc/mounts to see what 
the kernel _really_ thinks...

Also check dmesg to see if the sucker got remounted read only, although it 
shouldn't be...

Rob
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