Re: 2.6.3 NFS kernel warning

From: Trond Myklebust
Date: Wed Feb 18 2004 - 18:10:16 EST


På on , 18/02/2004 klokka 12:42, skreiv Nick Warne:
> Hello all,
>
> I am not registered with the list, so please CC if possible - thanks.
>
> I am not sure if this is a problem to report (as opposed to my old
> system's problem), but I get this now in dmesg after building 2.6.3
> tonight:
>
> nfs_read_super: get root inode failed
>
> This is 2.6.3 mounting a NFS from an old 486 box running Linux 2.2.13
> - and the NFS processes of the same age.
>
> The mount still works OK though; logs from the 486 report no
> warnings/errors apart from the version 3 is unknown.
>
> But I am intrigued why it gives this warning (and the inode.c code
> seems to imply it is a fatal error, AFAIK) if it still works?

"mount" is probably telling the kernel that it is mounting an NFSv3
partition. When that happens, the kernel retries using NFSv2...

Cheers,
Trond
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