From: "Dave Gilbert (Home)" <gilbertd@treblig.org>
Subject: Re: of rmtab and 'Invalid argument' and permission denied]
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 13:43:48 +0000
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Neil Brown wrote thus:

    that I wrote:
>>Sometimes the client will get a permission denied on attempting to mount
>>from the server even though it managed it a few hours earlier with no
>>change to config of the server.
>>
>>Restarting the nfs server gives a line of the form:
>>
>>clienthostname: Invalid argument

> What does your /etc/exports file look like?  Does it have both host
> names and IP addresses?  
> Do you export both a directory and an ancestor of that directory on
> the same filesystem?
> 
> Both of these can cause this sort of problem.

Thank you!  It was exporting both a directory and an ancestor.
Can we have something which screams/shouts/warns/rejects this
rather than failing in an evil and confusing way?

(oh and add it to the NFS FAQ)

> What version of nfs-utils is in SuSE 8.1?
> 
>  showmount -v

showmount for nfs-utils 0.3.3

Dave


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