Re: 2.1.72 and kernel NFSD

Peter Horton (pdh@berserk.demon.co.uk)
Wed, 17 Dec 1997 08:56:37 +0000 (GMT)


On Tue, 16 Dec 1997, Bill Hawes wrote:

> Peter Horton wrote:
> >
> > modprobe nfs
> > rpc.portmap
> > rpc.mountd
> > rpc.nfsd
> > mount localhost:/vfat /mnt
> >
> > Works fine, no error (the rpc.* code is from a Linux 2.0 distribution).
> >
> > modprobe nfsd
> > modprobe nfs
> > rpc.portmap
> > mountd
> > mount localhost:/vfat /mnt
> >
> > Fails (using mountd from linux-nfs-0.4.21, or the original rpc.mountd).
> >
> > Have I got the right version of everything ?
>
> I think you need to add a
> knfsd 2
>
> after the mountd command (knfsd or whatever you call the command.) Doing
> a
> ps -ax
>
> command afterwards should show two nfsd processes, a lockd, and a
> rpciod. There's an example script for loading modules and starting
> daemons in the linux-nfs package.

Doh! Got it!

Didn't realise that you still had to run a user space nfsd to call
nfssvc() in the kernel code. Now works like a charm ...

Thanks

P.