SLugOS/BE as NFS client

[beerman_wendel-2]

Hello,

I installed SLUGOS/BE on SLUG2 and want to attach an nfs share from
SLUG1 (Openslug 3.10) to it.

I exported the share in SLUG1 (added the following line to etc\exports:)

/opt/mp3 192.168.xxx.xxx(ro,no_root_squash,sync)

On SLUG2 im tried to mount that share with:
 
mount SLUG1:/opt/mp3 /opt/music

I received:

mount: unknown filesystem type 'nfs'

Does that mean, that SLUGOS/BE does not support NFS?
Or do I just have to install some packages?

Rigas

[beerman_wendel-2]

After spending some more hours an that subject, I did not make any
progress ...

Could it be that SlugOS/BE does not support NFS as a file system after
all and therefor cannot act as a NFS CLIENT?

Any hint is appreciated.

Rigas

[Mike (mwester)]

beerman_wendel wrote:
> After spending some more hours an that subject, I did not make any
> progress ...
>
> Could it be that SlugOS/BE does not support NFS as a file system after
> all and therefor cannot act as a NFS CLIENT?

SlugOS works very nicely as an NFS client, as well as an NFS server.

> Any hint is appreciated.

Well, you haven't provided any information on the issue in this email.
If you've done so earlier, and not gotten any response, then perhaps
you've not asked a question that anyone can respond to -- rethinking and
rephrasing the issue may be helpful.  Or at least a URL to the archived
email that you send earlier...

> Rigas

Mike (mwester)

[beerman_wendel-2]

--- In nslu2-general@..., "Mike (mwester)" <mwester@...>
wrote:

>
> beerman_wendel wrote:
> > After spending some more hours an that subject, I did not make any
> > progress ...
> >
> > Could it be that SlugOS/BE does not support NFS as a file system after
> > all and therefor cannot act as a NFS CLIENT?
>
> SlugOS works very nicely as an NFS client, as well as an NFS server.
>
> > Any hint is appreciated.
>
> Well, you haven't provided any information on the issue in this email.
> If you've done so earlier, and not gotten any response, then perhaps
> you've not asked a question that anyone can respond to -- rethinking and
> rephrasing the issue may be helpful.  Or at least a URL to the archived
> email that you send earlier...
>
> > Rigas
>
> Mike (mwester)
>

Hi Mike,

just have a look at the top of the tread, please ... :-)

Rigas

[Mike (mwester)]

beerman_wendel wrote:

> just have a look at the top of the tread, please ... :-)
>
> Rigas


There is no thread at the top :)  There are many different ways to
get/read the email from the list, and not all viewers of the email will
have all the messages in their inbox.  In general, if a thread has been
open for a while, it's worth summarizing the situation anew for those
who have come into the thread in the middle, or for those who have lost
the context of the thread -- this applies to any internet mail-list.

I guess if I get bored today, I can go off to the Yahoo archives and
search to see what your original problem might be...

Mike (mwester)

[beerman_wendel-2]

Well ... here comes the message again - I think it has all the
necessary details ...

Rigas


Hello,

I installed SLUGOS/BE on SLUG2 and want to attach an nfs share from
SLUG1 (Openslug 3.10) to it.

I exported the share in SLUG1 (added the following line to etc\exports:)

/opt/mp3 192.168.xxx.xxx(ro,no_root_squash,sync)

On SLUG2 im tried to mount that share with:

mount SLUG1:/opt/mp3 /opt/music

I received:

mount: unknown filesystem type 'nfs'

Does that mean, that SLUGOS/BE does not support NFS?
Or do I just have to install some packages?

[Mike (mwester)]

beerman_wendel wrote:

> Well ... here comes the message again - I think it has all the
> necessary details ...
>
> Rigas
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I installed SLUGOS/BE on SLUG2 and want to attach an nfs share from
> SLUG1 (Openslug 3.10) to it.
>
> I exported the share in SLUG1 (added the following line to etc\exports:)
>
> /opt/mp3 192.168.xxx.xxx(ro,no_root_squash,sync)
>
> On SLUG2 im tried to mount that share with:
>
> mount SLUG1:/opt/mp3 /opt/music
>
> I received:
>
> mount: unknown filesystem type 'nfs'
>
> Does that mean, that SLUGOS/BE does not support NFS?
> Or do I just have to install some packages?

It means you need to install packages.
http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/OpenSlug/InstallNFS

Mike (mwester)

[beerman_wendel-2]

--- In nslu2-general@..., "Mike (mwester)" <mwester@...>
wrote:

>
> beerman_wendel wrote:
> > Well ... here comes the message again - I think it has all the
> > necessary details ...
> >
> > Rigas
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I installed SLUGOS/BE on SLUG2 and want to attach an nfs share from
> > SLUG1 (Openslug 3.10) to it.
> >
> > I exported the share in SLUG1 (added the following line to

etc\exports:)

> >
> > /opt/mp3 192.168.xxx.xxx(ro,no_root_squash,sync)
> >
> > On SLUG2 im tried to mount that share with:
> >
> > mount SLUG1:/opt/mp3 /opt/music
> >
> > I received:
> >
> > mount: unknown filesystem type 'nfs'
> >
> > Does that mean, that SLUGOS/BE does not support NFS?
> > Or do I just have to install some packages?
>
> It means you need to install packages.
> http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/OpenSlug/InstallNFS
>
> Mike (mwester)
>

Thanks for the answer.

I had worked through that howto and all the packages listed there have
been installed on the NFS-Server (Slug1, OpenSlug 3.1) and the
NFS-client (Slug2, SlugOSBE).

The server part works fine; the question is , whether the client slug
with SlugOS/BE is at all able to mount a NFS share from an NFS server.

On the client I get the message: "mount: unknown filesystem type 'nfs'"

I installed the nfsd kernel module on the client. Do I have to
activate it somehow?

Rigas

[Mike (mwester)]

beerman_wendel wrote:

> --- In nslu2-general@..., "Mike (mwester)" <mwester@...>
> wrote:
>> beerman_wendel wrote:
>>> Well ... here comes the message again - I think it has all the
>>> necessary details ...
>>>
>>> Rigas
>>>
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I installed SLUGOS/BE on SLUG2 and want to attach an nfs share from
>>> SLUG1 (Openslug 3.10) to it.
>>>
>>> I exported the share in SLUG1 (added the following line to
> etc\exports:)
>>> /opt/mp3 192.168.xxx.xxx(ro,no_root_squash,sync)
>>>
>>> On SLUG2 im tried to mount that share with:
>>>
>>> mount SLUG1:/opt/mp3 /opt/music
>>>
>>> I received:
>>>
>>> mount: unknown filesystem type 'nfs'
>>>
>>> Does that mean, that SLUGOS/BE does not support NFS?
>>> Or do I just have to install some packages?
>> It means you need to install packages.
>> http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/OpenSlug/InstallNFS
>>
>> Mike (mwester)
>>
>
> Thanks for the answer.
>
> I had worked through that howto and all the packages listed there have
> been installed on the NFS-Server (Slug1, OpenSlug 3.1) and the
> NFS-client (Slug2, SlugOSBE).
>
> The server part works fine; the question is , whether the client slug
> with SlugOS/BE is at all able to mount a NFS share from an NFS server.
>
> On the client I get the message: "mount: unknown filesystem type 'nfs'"
>
> I installed the nfsd kernel module on the client. Do I have to
> activate it somehow?

You need to install the package named "kernel-module-nfs" to get the
client side of things.  Once you do that, it should know about the nfs
filesystem.  If that doesn't do it, there have been reports that a
"depmod -a" command is required and/or a reboot to get the system to
recognize the new kernel module.

As I poke about, though, I notice that the rpcbind executable has gone
AWOL -- so if your mount command appears to hang, <ctrl>-c out of it,
and try it again with the "-o nolock" option, e.g.:

mount -o nolock myserver:/bigfilesystem /mnt

> Rigas

Mike (mwester)

[beerman_wendel-2]

--- In nslu2-general@..., "Mike (mwester)" <mwester@...>
wrote:

>
> beerman_wendel wrote:
> > --- In nslu2-general@..., "Mike (mwester)" <mwester@>
> > wrote:
> >> beerman_wendel wrote:
> >>> Well ... here comes the message again - I think it has all the
> >>> necessary details ...
> >>>
> >>> Rigas
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Hello,
> >>>
> >>> I installed SLUGOS/BE on SLUG2 and want to attach an nfs share from
> >>> SLUG1 (Openslug 3.10) to it.
> >>>
> >>> I exported the share in SLUG1 (added the following line to
> > etc\exports:)
> >>> /opt/mp3 192.168.xxx.xxx(ro,no_root_squash,sync)
> >>>
> >>> On SLUG2 im tried to mount that share with:
> >>>
> >>> mount SLUG1:/opt/mp3 /opt/music
> >>>
> >>> I received:
> >>>
> >>> mount: unknown filesystem type 'nfs'
> >>>
> >>> Does that mean, that SLUGOS/BE does not support NFS?
> >>> Or do I just have to install some packages?
> >> It means you need to install packages.
> >> http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/OpenSlug/InstallNFS
> >>
> >> Mike (mwester)
> >>
> >
> > Thanks for the answer.
> >
> > I had worked through that howto and all the packages listed there have
> > been installed on the NFS-Server (Slug1, OpenSlug 3.1) and the
> > NFS-client (Slug2, SlugOSBE).
> >
> > The server part works fine; the question is , whether the client slug
> > with SlugOS/BE is at all able to mount a NFS share from an NFS server.
> >
> > On the client I get the message: "mount: unknown filesystem type

'nfs'"

> >
> > I installed the nfsd kernel module on the client. Do I have to
> > activate it somehow?
>
> You need to install the package named "kernel-module-nfs" to get the
> client side of things.  Once you do that, it should know about the nfs
> filesystem.  If that doesn't do it, there have been reports that a
> "depmod -a" command is required and/or a reboot to get the system to
> recognize the new kernel module.
>
> As I poke about, though, I notice that the rpcbind executable has gone
> AWOL -- so if your mount command appears to hang, <ctrl>-c out of it,
> and try it again with the "-o nolock" option, e.g.:
>
> mount -o nolock myserver:/bigfilesystem /mnt
>
> > Rigas
>
> Mike (mwester)
>

Hi Mike,

THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!

I installed "kernel-module-nfs", did depmode -a ...
and voila, it works.

Many happy thanx from Munich,

Rigas