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Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Slow NFS Exporting on Debian Solved

I rarely reboot my main machine but when I do the export stage for nfs shares took an intoleranly long time. Googling indicated I should install portmap. It was already installed so I tried reinstalling. Still the same problem when I tried

sudo /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server restart

The solution turned out to be quite simple. Rather than needing to configure reverse lookup on the the DNS Server I have running (bind9), I simply added the NFS clients to my local /etc/hosts file.

e.g

192.168.0.101 hermes.richardriley.net
192.168.0.103 g4.richardriley.net
192.168.0.104 X30.richardriley.net

The time to export is not about half a second as opposed to a minute.

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