NFS ERROR

[Matthew Galgoci]

On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, Joseph Daly wrote:

> Hi I have a Dell D800 Laptop with Redhat 9 using the 2.4.26 kernel.
> When mounting a remote systems directory the following error comes up.
> 
> NFS: NFSv3 not supported
> nfs warning: mount version older than kernel
> 
> I have looked on the net and the only thing that I have really found
> is to upgrade the mount package and the am utils. Can you guys think
> of anything else that might be causing this error

This is a harmless error message.

All that it indicates is that the version of mount that you have installed
currently *might not* support all the features of the nfs version that is in
the kernel.

I bet if you rebuild and install the util-linux package from fedora the error
will most certainly go away.

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Matthew Galgoci
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Red Hat, Inc
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