An interesting NFS mounting problem

[harold molly]

seems to me you solved the problem, yourself.
1) do an early nfs mount (an operation on fstab)
2)check your routes and set these manually, if needed(an operation on 
the route command)

good luck

Zhou, Jingchen wrote:
> Thank you all for your responses.
>  
> So, I googled around and found this solution, and it works!
>
> http://crazytoon.com/2007/05/11/centos-and-redhat-problem-nfs-mount-at-boot-up-fails-with-error-system-error-no-route-to-host/
> But I don't know if this is a proper solution though, as I have a 
> number of applicaiton daemons which get started at run level 3 and 
> depend on the NFS filesystems. My concern is that the application 
> daemons may start up before netfs, as netfs sleeps 30s.
>  
> My question is that why do I have to do this on this client, as I have 
> a large number of NFS clients that have the same hardware/OS and are 
> configured identically. All works except for this client. Why it takes 
> so long for
> network to start and set up routes etc.? Is it something wrong with my 
> NIC card ?
>  
> Thanks,
> Jingchen 
>
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> Jingchen
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> *Subject:* An interesting NFS mounting problem
>
> I am having a problem to mount a NFS volume /home (exported by a RHEL4 
> server nfs0) on a NFS client which is also RHEL4.
>
> The server (nfs0) is configured as such
> $ cat /etc/exports
> /home nfsclient1(rw)
>
> and the client (nfsclient1) as such:
> #cat /etc/fstab
> nfs0:/home            /home           nfs     defaults        0 0
>
> When the client boots up, I get the following error message:
>
> "Mounting NFS filesystems: mount: mount to NFS server 'nfs0' failed: 
> System Error: No route to host."
>
> However, I have no problem to ping the server (nfs0) from nfsclient1 
> and I also can mount /home manually via e.g. "mount /home" from 
> command line.
>
> Am I missing any?
>
> Thanks,
> JC
>
>
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