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
>
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