[Sheflug] NFS & rpc stuff

[Andrew Basterfield <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm building my own distro from scratch LFS style and it is nearly 
there... one problem though. I am trying to mount an NFS export into the 
new machine's filesystem - it works but only after a 5 minute timeout. I 
get a 'kernel: portmap: localhost not reponding' message in the syslog. 
I assumed all the rpc stuff was on the server side and in the client it 
was all done in the kernel? What does it do? How does it work? How about 
NFS root partitions - the filesystem gets mounted then OK before any rpc 
  daemons are run on the client. Is there a way around this without 
installing any extra <rot13>fuvg</rot13> or do I need an rpc/portmap 
package which contains rpc.portmap? It does actually WORK at the moment, 
it just takes ages to mount.

thanks

A. Basterfield

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