[lug] Sun Client Redhat AS3 NFS Probs

[D. Stimits]

Jeffrey A. St. Pierre wrote:
> Ladies and Jellymen,
> 
> Sanity is a fleeting thing and I am certainly about to lose mine.  
> I have encountered a most perplexing error between a Redhat AS3
> NFS server and a Sun Solaris 8 Client.  Essentially the sun
> accessing the fileserver works, but causes the server to spool
> errors like such:
> 
> May 13 11:28:49 <server> rpc.rquotad: Can't find filesystem
> mountpoint for directory /export/rd01/stack
> May 13 11:28:49 <server> rpc.rquotad: No correct mountpoint
> specified.
> May 13 11:28:50 <server> rpc.rquotad: Can't find filesystem
> mountpoint for directory /export/rd01/stack
> May 13 11:28:50 <server> rpc.rquotad: No correct mountpoint
> specified.
> May 13 11:28:51 <server> rpc.rquotad: Can't find filesystem
> mountpoint for directory /export/rd01/stack
> May 13 11:28:51 <server> rpc.rquotad: No correct mountpoint
> specified.
> 
> 
> As far as I can tell, mounting the NFS share on another RH Ent3
> box does not cause these errors.  which means there is something
> about the mount requests from the Sun that causes it to spew this
> error.
> 
> Here are the settings on the Redhat Server:
> 
> /etc/exports=
> 
>   /export/rd01 128.138.xxx.0/255.255.255.0(rw,async)
>   /export/rd02 128.138.xxx.0/255.255.255.0(rw,async)  
> 
> chkconfig --list
> 
>   nfs             0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on
>                   6:off
>   nfslock         0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on
>                   6:off
> 
> And the settings on the Solaris 8 client:
> 
> /etc/auto_master=
> 
>   # Master map for automounter
>   #
>   +auto_master
>   /projects               /etc/auto_proj  -rw,bg,intr,soft
>   
> /etc/auto_proj=
>  
>   # Home directory map for automounter
>   # RCS: {$Id: auto_proj,v 1.161 2004/05/11 20:10:46 root Exp $}
>   #
>   +auto_proj
>   stack   -rw,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 \
>           <server>.Colorado.EDU:/export/rd01/&
> 
> uname -a output:
>   SunOS <client> 5.8 Generic_108528-27 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-4
> 
> 
> Generally the errors mentioned above spool continuously while
> jobs that access the mount are running.  However, I have been
> able to run 'du -sm *' on all the sub-dirs from the client side
> without generating errors.  I have executed 'dd if=/dev/zero
> of=/projects/stack/testfile bs=16k count=61384' and seen no ill
> results.  sync or async in the /etc/exports doesn't change
> anything... I can't seem to find what is actually placing the
> call from the Sun client to the rquotad on the RH server.
> 
> Any ideas...
...

I see that quota is being mentioned in the errors. You might want to 
compare on the working versus failing systems kernel options for quota, 
quota tools, and how quota is set up. Finally, you might want to check 
that they all use the same underlying filesystem type, as not all 
filesystems support quota in the same way (e.g., XFS supports full ACL's 
but only with the right kernel options and tools).

D. Stimits, stimits AT comcast DOT net