NFS mount operations periodically fail due to reserved port exhaustion
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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