Kernel 2.6.22.1-27.fc7 breaks NFS

[M A Young]

On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, [UTF-8] scathew wrote:

> We're seeing the same thing here. If I use a 2.6.20 kernel for instance,
> I have no problems. If I use the latest released FC6 kernel
> (2.6.22.4-45) it gets the "is already mounted or busy".
>
> To note, this isn't an issue with "automount" (autofs), but rather an
> issue with NFS itself. You can't manually mount either (the original
> example is vanilla NFS too incidentally). Automount is just an
> abstraction on top (which yes, is not surprisingly broken too).

This is bug 250597
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=250597
backported to FC6. The fix is to update nfs-utils, then add the
nosharecache option to the nfs mount configuration, eg. by adding
-Onosharecache to the OPTIONS line in /etc/sysconfig/autofs .

	Michael Young