Cannot create files on NFS mount, results in error 'Read-only filesystem' even though NFS mount is mounted as read-write

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Issuing the touch command against a read-write mounted NFS share results in the following error:
# touch sdf.txt
touch: cannot touch `sdf.txt': Read-only file system
  • The NFS client is mounting the NFS share as read-write: 
server.example.com:/share   /share         nfs     rw              0 0

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • NFS client

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