Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Dec 2000 18:16:23 -0500 (EST) | From | John Covici <> | Subject | Re: strange nfs behavior in 2.2.18 and 2.4.0-test12 |
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On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Neil Brown wrote:
> On Thursday December 21, covici@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > Hi. I am having strange nfs problems in both my 2.x and 2.4.0-test12 > > kernels. > > > > What is happening is that when the machine boots up and exports the > > directories for nfs, it complains that > > > > ccs2:/ invalid argument . > > > > The exports entry is > > > > / ccs2(rw,no_root_squash) > > Is there another export entry that exports another part of the same > file system to the same client? If so, that is your problem.
Well I do want to export the mount points under the file system, for instance I have a partition mounted as /usr and so I have an entry such as /usr ccs2(rw,no_root_squash)
in my exports list. Is there any other way to get this behaviour to work?
> You cannot export two different directories on the same filesystem to > the same client if one is an ancestor of the other (because exporting > a directory is really exporting the directory and all descendants on > that filesystem, and so exporting a directory and a subdirectory is > effectively exporting the subdirectory twice with potentially > different flags). > > NeilBrown > > > > > Now in Kernel 2.2.18, if I stop and restart the nfs daemons, all is > > OK, the invalid argument goes away, but in 2.4.0 I cannot get this to > > work at all and so I cannot mount nfs from a client on the ccs2 box. > > I am using the utilities 0.2.1-4 from the Debian distribution if that > > makes any difference. I did an strace once on exportfs and it was > > having trouble with the call to nfsservctl which returns invalid argument. > > > > > > Any assistance would be appreciated. > > > > -- > > John Covici > > covici@ccs.covici.com > > > > - > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
-- John Covici covici@ccs.covici.com
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