From: Peter Staubach <staubach@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: NFS won't mount rw
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 10:00:28 -0400
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To: Chris Carlson <c.carlson@aristoslogic.com>
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Chris Carlson wrote:
> We have a new problem that I was hoping someone could help with.
>
> We have a Snap Appliance NFS server.  It has been recently upgraded, so 
> it should have good NFS server software on it (though this isn't a 
> guarantee).
>
> We have a couple dozen Linux 2.4 systems that have it mounted (via 
> automount).  No problem.  All mount is with root_squash and rw (not sure 
> of the other options).
>
> We just tried to "automount" it to a RedHat Linux Enterprise 5 system, 
> and it mounted fine - except it is read-only.  Why would Linux 2.6 not 
> mount it rw like the other systems?  Is it some security thing that we 
> don't know?  Is there a bug in the NFS client on RH Linux?
>
> If anybody knows what we're missing, I'd appreciate a clue.

I don't suppose that this file system from the server is already
mounted somewhere on the client and is mounted there read-only?
The current RHEL-5 has a problem doing this.  It should be fixed
in the next release of RHEL-5.

    Thanx...

       ps

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