We had a very similar problem with SuSE9.1 NFS clients and empty remote mounts. Try these mount options in your /etc/fstab nfsserver:/export /mnt/mount nfs nfsvers=2,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=30,intr,retrans=30,soft specify nfsvers=2 or nfsvers=3 and try both. If this won't work then probably you'll have load plain 2.6.8.1 kernel which has a fix for NFS problem. Compile it, install newer util-linux and the problem should go away. That is how we fixed it in our eng. dept. Alex On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Ken Gramm wrote:
So, I have SuSE 9.0 server with three drives.
sda1 - mounts on / sdb1 - mounts on /data sdc1 - mounts on /data/moredata
I have /data exported under NFS and I have it setup as a Samba share.
My MS boxes can see everything as expected (both /data and /data/moredata). They can also see everything if they connect with an NFS client for Windows (comes with MS Services For Unix).
My SuSE 9.1 box and a different 9.0 box can both mount a smb share and see the contents of the entire tree (/data and /data/moredata).
The problem I can't figure out is if I mount /data through nfs on either SuSE workstation, I can only see the contents of /data. If I cd into /data/moredata the directory is empty, even though I know data is in the there. What is even stranger is if I create anything in /data/moredata from either SuSE workstation, both workstations can see the newly created files/folders, but all of the other machines can't. That is until I unmount sdc1 from /data/moredata. Then if I look into the folder that serves as the mount point, I find the files/folders that the SuSE workstations created. It is as if the SuSE NFS clients don't recognize the folder /data/moredata as a mount point and thus do not try to write anything to the proper volume.
So my question is, has anyone else see this problem, and if so, what was the solution?
Thanks in advance.
Ken
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