Colin Tuckley wrote:
> My balloon has a Socket LP-E ethernet i/f which seems to work well when I do
> most things.
> 
> However if I try to mount an NFS share from the balloon it sits for about 3
> minutes before the command completes successfully. the umount happens
> instantly as expected.
> 
> Has anyone else experienced this problem?
> 
For some reason I think you need the "-o nolock" switch.
I also find that nfs synchronisation can take an age when a lot of data 
is moved. Not really sure why.

> Looking at the problem it appears that my balloon does not have portmapper
> installed and the wait is the timeout for a failed portmapper request. Does
> anyone know if this is the real problem?
> 
> If I try to "ipkg install portmapper" it complains:
> 
> ERROR: Cannot satisfy the following dependencies for portmap:
>          start-stop-daemon
> 
Thats unexpected. Is it actually installed? If it is then ipkg install 
portmapper -force-depends should work.

Nick Bane

> Anyone know how to either get around that or what to install to meet the
> dependency?
> 
> regards,
> 
> Colin
>