Problem
While mounting nfs share in Veritas System Recovery Disk (SRD) mode for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.7, the following error occurs:
mount: Mounting [machineip]:/mnt/nfs on /mnt/nfs failed : Input/output error
Error Message
mount: Mounting [machineip]:/mnt/nfs on /mnt/nfs failed : Input/output error
Cause
By default, in RHEL 5.7 recovery disk environment, the rpc.statd that is required by NFS for remote locking may not be running. In this situation, do local locking using the -o nolock option to connect to NFS share for accessing the recovery points.
Solution
Run the mount command with the “-o nolock” option using the following syntax:
#mount -t nfs -o nolock [MachineIP]:/mnt/nfs /tmp/nfs
Applies To
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7
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