Taciturn

Well, I finally disabled NFS on my server. After a power outage today erwin came back up but NFS was not working. Once again it was with the message nfsd[10892]: nfssvc: Address already in use. I think I once fixed it by restarting dnsmasq then nfs, but tonight I spent about an hour with no luck. Even strace-ing the process just gave the cryptic message:

open("/proc/fs/nfsd/threads", O_WRONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 4
write(4, "0\n", 2) = -1 EADDRINUSE (Address already in use)

Now it just runs Samba and my machines use smbfs to mount the share which seems to work nicely and is probably a bit more of a known quantity, considering all the parts (portmap, idmapd, statd, nfsd, ...?) that constitute a complete NFS server.

Good riddance, NFS!

Update 2007-05-05: Samba takes a lot more precious memory and CPU time than NFS did, but I'm sticking with it for now.