[Bug 891825] Re: NFS client doesn't mount or mounts slow on startup on 11.10

[Antti Miranto]

wowo, I believe that "From Linux manual: Options for NFS versions 2 and
3 only. nfsvers=n:" isn't unambiguous at least for me it worked like
this. With nfsvers=4 exactly same problems come up as with nfs4. Setting
this nfsvers=3 resolves it but downgrades protocol to nfs3.

I remember beating my head to wall last time with this in Maverick.
Finally got time to upgrade :-)

I got it resolved with these options:
server:/mnt/mythtv-00  /mnt/mythtv-00  nfs4 defaults,nfsvers=4,relatime,timeo=100,ac,bg,clientaddr=192.168.1.20 0 0 
Direct copy of my client's fstab. I believe its bg or timeo=100 option which made it to work. Don't have time to experiment but passing info here.

But this is pain as Ubuntu still don't work with basic things like
nfs... I'd like to see slowdown in releases or omit one release to
really fix these annoying things.

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Title:
  NFS client doesn't mount or mounts slow on startup on 11.10

Status in “nfs-utils” package in Ubuntu:
  Expired

Bug description:
  Here is the problem. I have a ubuntu server 10.04 and installed nfs-server.
  Every client I had till 11.10, would mount the folders at startup. Here is my fstab on Ubuntu 11.10 client:

  ubuntuserver:/media/huge /media/huge nfs rsize=16384,wsize=16384,rw,auto,nolock
  ubuntuserver:/media/externi-disk /media/externi-disk nfs rsize=16384,wsize=16384,rw,auto,nolock

  I have to wait for a minute till these directories get mounted. I have not changed any setup on 10.04 server, the previous 11.04 mounted the disks out of the box.
  The problem is that I have lot of setup files on my server, for example I have a link to pidgin, thunderbird etc. and on startup these programs can't get to their data. Network rises up fast on startup so that shouldn't be a problem.

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