Mount (the MNT protocol) is only for NFSv3.  NFSv4 doesn't use that
protocol, it uses a pseudoroot and NFS ops.  So you won't see any mount
traffic from Ganesha when it's doing proxy, only NFSv4 traffic.


Daniel

On 1/6/20 2:01 PM, Alok Sinha wrote:
>
>
> Hi Daniel,
>
> Thanks for the pointer.
>
> NFS version does not look like an issue. Real issue may be following:
>
> I started mountd in debug mode on NFS server.  "mount" from command
> shows that
> calls are reaching to mountd on NFS server. But from NFS Ganasha, it
> looks to me that calls are not
> reaching to mountd on NFS server. There is no logging/activity on NFS
> server.
>
> Any clue?
>
> I have used NFS proxy successfully before with older version of Ganesha.
>
> -alok
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 7:55 AM Daniel Gryniewicz <dgryniew@redhat.com
> <mailto:dgryniew@redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>     This happens when a lookup on Path (in this case
>     "/home/alok/cache_dir")
>     failed in the FSAL.  Since the FSAL is proxy, it tried to do a remote
>     lookup of that path on the remote server, and this failed.  Is
>     this path
>     exported via NFSv4 on 10.1.10.103?
>
>
>     Daniel
>
>     On 1/6/20 10:40 AM, Alok Sinha wrote:
>     >
>     >
>     > NFS ganesha version : 2.8.3
>     >
>     > I can mount the directory:
>     >
>     > alok@spillbox:src$ df -k /home/alok/cache_dir
>     > Filesystem                        1K-blocks     Used Available Use%
>     > Mounted on
>     > 10.1.10.103:/home/alok/cache_dir/ 427548672 16504832 389255168   5%
>     > /home/alok/cache_dir
>     > alok@spillbox:src$
>     >
>     >
>     >  ganesha.conf entry:
>     >
>     > EXPORT
>     > {
>     >         Export_Id = 12345;
>     >         Path = "/home/alok/cache_dir";
>     >         Pseudo = "/home/alok/cache_dir";
>     >         Access_Type = RW;
>     >         Squash = no_root_squash;
>     >         FSAL {
>     >                 Name = PROXY;
>     >                 Srv_Addr = 10.1.10.103;
>     >                 Use_Privileged_Client_Port = true;
>     >         }
>     > }
>     >
>     >
>     > I get :
>     > 06/01/2020 07:34:30 : epoch 5e135386 : spillbox :
>     > ganesha.nfsd-9031[main] init_export_root :EXPORT :
>     > CRIT :Lookup failed on path, ExportId=12345
>     Path=/home/alok/cache_dir
>     > FSAL_ERROR=(No such file or di
>     > rectory,2)
>     >
>     > I am stuck.  Any clue?
>     >
>     > -alok
>     >
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