[PVE-User] Fwd: Re: NFS on latest kernel

[Tony Zakula]

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Tony Zakula <tony at zakula.com> wrote:
>>
>> -------- Message original --------
>> Sujet: Re: [PVE-User] NFS on latest kernel
>> Date : Mon, 14 Feb 2011 16:50:13 +0100
>> De : Alain Péan <alain.pean at lpp.polytechnique.fr>
>> Pour : Tony Zakula <tony at zakula.com>
>>
>> Le 14/02/2011 16:10, Tony Zakula a écrit :
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I recently upgraded to Proxmox 1.7 and installed the 2.6.32 kernel
>> > version as I am using all KVMs.  I then started having trouble with my
>> > NFS shares for backups.  I saw on the forum where NFS for tis kernel
>> > is buggy.  What would be the command to switch and downgrade back to
>> > something that supports NFS?  Would it just be aptitude install
>> > proxmox-ve-2.6.18?
>> Hi toni,
>>
>> If you are using only KVM, as in my case, you can also use the latest
>> kernel available in Proxmox, that is 2.6.35 :
>> # aptitude install proxmox-ve-2.6.35 (then reboot, after shutting all
>> your VMs...)
>>
>> Then pveversion -v will show you which kernel you indeed run. You can
>> come back later to 2.6.32, either editing grub.lst, or reinstalling
>> 2.6.32 (or choosing 2.6.32 in grub menu at boot time).
>>
>> Note that it does not support openvz containers. In my case, with this
>> kernel, my backups (via web interface) are performing correctly.
>>
>> Alain
>>
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>
> Thanks, but it still did not seem to fix it.  Here is my info:
> proxmox2:~# pveversion -v
> pve-manager: 1.7-10 (pve-manager/1.7/5323)
> running kernel: 2.6.35-1-pve
> proxmox-ve-2.6.35: 1.7-9
> pve-kernel-2.6.32-4-pve: 2.6.32-30
> pve-kernel-2.6.35-1-pve: 2.6.35-9
> qemu-server: 1.1-28
> pve-firmware: 1.0-10
> libpve-storage-perl: 1.0-16
> vncterm: 0.9-2
> vzctl: 3.0.24-1pve4
> vzdump: 1.2-10
> vzprocps: 2.0.11-1dso2
> vzquota: 3.0.11-1
> pve-qemu-kvm: 0.13.0-3
> ksm-control-daemon: 1.0-4
> When adding a storage unit, it scans the NFS server fine and comes back with the correct shares, but when I click save I get
> Error: command '/bin/mount -t nfs 192.168.1.40:/export /mnt/pve/backups' failed with exit code 32
> Tony Z

Just for the record, NFS does work with kernel 2.6.35.  I was ensnared
in a network snafu and the upgrade and issue was coincidental.

Tony Z