NFS doesn't work

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Often NFS in VE does not work because of misconfiguration. This article contains known reasons of such problems as well as solutions for those.

Mount hangs

Symptoms

mount command hangs:

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

Reason

Lockd is not running on the NFS server.

Solution

Two options are possible:

  • run lockd on the server
  • mount with nolock option

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