NFS mount operations periodically fail due to reserved port exhaustion

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • When mounting a large number of NFS filesystems in quick succession, some mount operations may fail with "mount.nfs: mount system call failed"
  • Rapid NFS mount and unmount results in "nfs.mount system call EIO input/output error"
  • NFS mount operations periodically fail due to reserved port exhaustion

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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