Hi Forum

I am trying to mount /NFS as nfs mountpoint on two servers ( A & B ).
After mounting the nfs filesystem, both of them behave normally for around 10 mins and after that the NFS file handle become stale and the
mountpoints dont respond. While executing df -kh, the output hang out and the /var/log/messages show the following message:
May 27 15:48:56 earth mountd[3078]: Cannot export /NFS, possibly unsupported filesystem or fsid= required
May 28 04:04:20 earth kernel: nfs: server nas not responding, still trying
May 28 10:11:51 earth kernel: nfs: server nas not responding, still trying

The fstab enteries for /NFS mountpoint on both servers is :
nas:/NFS /NFS nfs rw,bg,hard,nointr,tcp,nfsvers=3,timeo=600,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,acti
meo=0 1 2

/etc/export enteries on both server is :
/NFS *(rw,sync,no_wdelay,insecure_locks,no_root_squash)


Please let me know how can I fix this issue.

Thanks in advance,
Raj.

I'm confused. How many actual servers and how many clients have you got? Which machine is called "earth" and which is called "nas"? Are you really trying to recursively re-export an NFS mount in a tight loop?

Sorry for creating confusion. I mentioned A & B ( just to simplify).

There are two total server One server is earth, other is sky. And NAS is earth itself.
Earth is nfs server and sky is working as client.

I am not sure whether its recursively re-exporting an NFS mount in a tight loop.

Thanks for help,
Raj.

But are you saying that both machines are trying to be both server and client? You said (or at least implied) that both machines have the same contents in their /etc/fstab and /etc/export files. And you appear to be using the same directory name for the remote mount point and the export. Your latest reply suggests not, but the syslog extract you posted showed both export and mount errors on the same machine. If that were the case it would be a tight loop and would be broken.

Assuming you aren't doing that, so that "earth" only has the /etc/exports entry and "sky" only has the /etc/fstab entry, and you are still getting stale handles, can you check that the network connection is reliable first. Usually a stale handle is because the server has rebooted or been re-configured.

Thanks BDT-Rob

Your feedback solved my problem.

I was putting same enteries in both fstabs ( which i was not supposed to be).

Great Forum........ Keep replying.