Some of the issues:
1. I keep getting strange RPC messages on bootup although I am using
userland NFS. (Kernel NFS compiled it but not used)
Dec 16 14:48:40 deborah kernel: portmap: RPC call returned error 111
Dec 16 14:48:40 deborah kernel: RPC: task of released request still
queued!
Dec 16 14:48:40 deborah kernel: RPC: (task is on xprt_pending)
Dec 16 14:48:40 deborah kernel: portmap: RPC call returned error 111
Dec 16 14:48:40 deborah kernel: RPC: task of released request still
queued!
Dec 16 14:48:40 deborah kernel: RPC: (task is on xprt_pending)
Dec 16 14:48:40 deborah kernel: lockd_up: makesock failed, error=-111
Dec 16 14:48:40 deborah kernel: portmap: RPC call returned error 111
Dec 16 14:48:40 deborah kernel: RPC: task of released request still
queued!
Dec 16 14:48:40 deborah kernel: RPC: (task is on xprt_pending)
Dec 16 14:48:40 deborah kernel: lockd_up: no pid, 2 users??
Dec 16 14:48:40 deborah kernel: portmap: RPC call returned error 111
Dec 16 14:48:40 deborah kernel: RPC: task of released request still
queued!
Dec 16 14:48:40 deborah kernel: RPC: (task is on xprt_pending)
Dec 16 14:48:40 deborah kernel: portmap: RPC call returned error 111
Dec 16 14:48:40 deborah kernel: RPC: task of released request still
queued!
Dec 16 14:48:40 deborah kernel: RPC: (task is on xprt_pending)
Dec 16 14:48:40 deborah kernel: lockd_up: makesock failed, error=-111
Dec 16 14:48:40 deborah kernel: portmap: RPC call returned error 111
Dec 16 14:48:40 deborah kernel: RPC: task of released request still
queued!
Dec 16 14:48:40 deborah kernel: RPC: (task is on xprt_pending)
Dec 16 14:48:41 deborah syslogd 1.3-3#17.1: restart.
2. RPC in general seems to be slow. I am using NIS and keep getting
timeouts.
Dec 16 12:54:12 deborah ypbind[135]: unknown: RPC: Timed out
Dec 16 12:55:13 deborah ypbind[135]: unknown: RPC: Timed out
Dec 16 16:48:46 deborah ypbind[150]: unknown: RPC: Timed out
3. The Kernel NFS tools from Olaf seem to be abandoned. I was not able to
build them under glibc. A while ago I used them under libc5 (Around
2.1.30) and experienced general flaky behavior. Is it worth an attempt to
try again?