NFS doesn't work

Often NFS in VE doesn't work because off misconfiguration. This article contents known reasons of NFS related problems, that are not bugs, but misconfigurations.

Reason #1

Symptomps

mount command hangs:

# mount <ip address>:/pub /data
(...hangs here...)

Reason

Lockd is not running on the NFS server

Workaround

• run lockd on the server
• mount with nolock option

Links

• http://bugzilla.openvz.org/show_bug.cgi?id=620