topic Re: Problem in NFS file system mounting in Operating System - Linux

Problem in NFS file system mounting

sesemi — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:59:00 GMT

I have a NFS server which is exported a directory. There are 5 NFS client machines which they mount that directory too. The service used to work fine before. Now we encounter a strange problem. The mounted NFS filesystem on the clients loses its permission suddenly. The problem is that the directory on the clients loses their permissions occasionally. Although it is still mounted I cannot either change directory to the folder. I get permission denied error and the output of ls -l is as follow:
?------------ ? ? ? ? ? SharedFolder
Also, before the problem occurrence all the created files owner were root:root, now the ownership of newly created files are nobody:nobody. The Operating system of both clients and server are RHEL4-64bit.
Remounting the partition solves the problem temporarily but it happens again within an hour. The result of NFS debug process are as follow:
Client
Mar 9 12:17:04 app4 kernel: NFS: revalidating (0:13/2)
Mar 9 12:17:04 app4 kernel: NFS call getattr
Mar 9 12:17:04 app4 kernel: NFS reply getattr
Mar 9 12:17:04 app4 kernel: nfs_revalidate_inode: (0:13/2) getattr failed, error=-13

Server
Mar 9 12:14:18 app9 kernel: svc: tcp_recv 00000100782f9a80 data 1 conn 0 close 0
Mar 9 12:14:18 app9 kernel: svc: tcp_recv 00000100782f9a80 data 1 conn 0 close 0
Mar 9 12:14:18 app9 kernel: svc: socket 00000100782f9a80 recvfrom(00000100782f9b28, 4) = -11
Mar 9 12:14:18 app9 kernel: RPC: TCP recvfrom got EAGAIN
Mar 9 12:14:18 app9 kernel: svc: got len=-11
Mar 9 12:14:18 app9 kernel: svc: server 000001007e177800 waiting for data (to = 3600000)
Mar 9 12:14:18 app9 kernel: svc: server 000001007de41c00 waiting for data (to = 3600000

Re: Problem in NFS file system mounting

Modris Bremze — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:48:33 GMT

What are the /etc/exports options on server and mount options (/etc/fstab?) on clients? What does nfsstat show?

Re: Problem in NFS file system mounting

Modris Bremze — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:48:49 GMT

What are the /etc/exports options on server and mount options (/etc/fstab?) on clients? What does `nfsstat` show?

Re: Problem in NFS file system mounting

sesemi — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 06:22:20 GMT

the etc/fstab configuration for this mount point is as follow:

x.x.x.x:/SharedFolder /SharedFolder nfs remount,rw,hard,nointr,tcp,vers=3,timeo=300,rsize= 32768,wsize=32768,actimeo=0 0 0

The output of mount command when the problem happens:
x.x.x.x:/SharedFolder /SharedFolder type nfs (rw,hard,nointr,nfsvers=3,tcp,timeo=300,rsize=3276 8,wsize=32768,actimeo=0,addr=x.x.x.x)

This the content of /etc/exports
/SharedFolder app*.domainname(rw)
/SharedFolder x.x.x*(rw)

Re: Problem in NFS file system mounting

Kapil Jha — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:33:05 GMT

You would like to check on crontabs and other scripts which could possibly cause the permission to be changed.
Now since earlier permission used to be root:root that mean only root can change the permissions so you would like to see if any command/script.
You may also would like to check if there is any sequence for permission change.

BR,
Kapil+

Re: Problem in NFS file system mounting

sesemi — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:51:33 GMT

Nothing is set in crontab.

Re: Problem in NFS file system mounting

Modris Bremze — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 07:33:14 GMT

You could try mounting it with default options (defaults) and see if the problem persists. You also mentioned, thtat there are multiple clients accessing the share - maybe try with only one client at a time. It would also be useful to ensure, that all relevant patches are applied.