From: "Talpey, Thomas" Subject: Re: NFS mount problem (2000 NFS filesystems) of linux clients to a solaris server Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 08:08:10 -0500 Message-ID: References: <45F004BD.1070500@biochem.mpg.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: NFS@lists.sourceforge.net To: Bernhard Busch Return-path: In-Reply-To: <45F004BD.1070500@biochem.mpg.de> References: <45F004BD.1070500@biochem.mpg.de> List-Id: "Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: nfs-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: nfs-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net At 07:42 AM 3/8/2007, Bernhard Busch wrote: >It is possible to export these 2000 filesystems on the server (sun solaris) >and to mount these 2000 nfs filesystem on sgi and solaris >clients without any problems. > > >On Linux Clients (SLES10, Suse10.2) i get >error messages like the following ones: > >nfs bindresvport: Address already in use >nfs bindresvport: Address already in use >nfs bindresvport: Address already in use >mount: solaris10-02:/fs/DISK/disk1998: can't read superblock >mount: solaris10-02:/fs/DISK/disk1999: can't read superblock >mount: solaris10-02:/fs/DISK/disk2000: can't read superblock You need to increase the number of ports available on the Linux NFS client. echo 65535 >/proc/sys/sunrpc/max_resvport This will raise it to the maximum, you could use smaller values but because you are creating so many mounts, that would quite possibly start to collide with other reserved ports. In fact, you might want to set /proc/sys/sunrpc/min_resvport to something large (32768), also in order to avoid collisions. However that in turn might require reconfiguring some of your NFS servers to accept "nonprivileged" ports (Linux server export option "insecure", others see documentation). Tom. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs