[gentoo-user] NFS mounting - SOLVED

[Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>]

Greetings,

[New readers start here...   :) ]

I've spent several days-worth of my time over the last few weeks in trying to 
get my i5 box to export its portage tree and packages directory to a chroot on 
my M9 machine. I read all the docs, I thought about the help that was offered 
here, I changed file systems and partitions around - everything I could think 
of.

The answer was simple, and I stumbled over it in a post on Stack Exchange: the 
behaviour of NFS mount calls changed in NFS v4. I didn't need to change /etc/
exports on the i5, but the NFS-mount call on the M9 did need to change.

# cat /etc/exports		# on the i5
/mnt/nfs \
   192.168.178.7(rw,sync,no_subtree_check,no_root_squash,crossmnt,fsid=0)
/mnt/nfs/portage \
   192.168.178.7(rw,sync,insecure,no_subtree_check,no_root_squash)
/mnt/nfs/packages \
   192.168.178.7(rw,sync,insecure,no_subtree_check,no_root_squash)

$ grep nfs /etc/init.d/nuci		# on the M9. Nuci is the I5
    mount -t nfs 192.168.178.4:portage /mnt/nuci/var/db/repos/gentoo
    mount -t nfs 192.168.178.4:packages /mnt/nuci/var/cache/packages

Notice the absence of '/mnt/nfs' from the M9 mount commands. That's what was 
tripping me up all that time.

Someone needs to have a look at the nfs-utils wiki page. I'd do something 
myself, but how? I raised a bug against a document once, only to be rebuked.

-- 
Regards,
Peter.