Re: NFS on V3R7 not working

[Martin Rowe <martin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 26 August 2002 9:52 pm, James Rich wrote:
[snip]
>
> Nuts... here is what I get now:
>
> root@gate:~# /root/mount70 -t nfs my.as400.com:/qdls/pcfiles /mnt
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on
> my.as400.com:/qdls/pcfiles, or too many mounted file systems

Ahh. QDLS doesn't work. Neither does /QSYS.LIB. By that I mean *I*
couldn't get them to work, and I've never heard corroborated reports of
them working for others - I'd like to be corrected on that, though. When
I have managed to get them mounted any attempt to access the share, even
just an ls, results in a locked box for ten minutes or more until it runs
out of resources :( The shares I do have working are directories off / -
either standard ones like QOpenSys & /etc, or ones we've added.

I tried to be sneaky when I thought, 'the AS/400 supports symlinks', but
that didn't get me anywhere, as I couldn't link them to QDLS files or
folders (or if I could they weren't accessible).

> And dmesg shows this:
>
> nfs warning: mount version older than kernel

With the 2.9y I get that one

> nfs_get_root: getattr error = 5
> nfs_read_super: get root inode failed

but not those.

> I suppose I can go get an even older version of mount...  Anything else
> I could try (I already tried getting them to upgrade their AS/400)?

I've ended up using ncftpget & ncftpput to deal with QDLS stuff.
Fortunately our use of them is declining, mainly due to me pushing for a
filesystem I can more easily work with ;)

Things should be better with V5R1 as NetServer now (I believe) supports
Linux, so there's an alternative to NFS, but that doesn't help either of
us at present :(

Regards, Martin
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