Messages in this thread |  | | From | Neil Brown <> | Date | Sat, 30 Dec 2000 08:30:48 +1100 (EST) | Subject | Re: Bugs in knfsd -- Problem re-exporting an NFS share |
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On Friday December 29, Frank.Olsen@stonesoft.com wrote: > Hi -- could you please CC me if you reply to this mail. > > My problem is that I get an error when setting up the following > configuration: > > A: /exports/A - Redhat 7.0 > B1/B2: mount /exports/A on /export/A from A - Redhat 6.2 > C: mount /exports/A on /mnt/A from B1 or B2 - Redhat 6.2 > > I use knfsd/nfs-utils on each machine. > > bash# ls /mnt/A > /mnt/A/A.txt: No such file or directory >
This is not a supported configuration. You cannot export NFS mounted filesystems with NFS. The protocol does not cope, and it implementation doesn't even try. NFS is for export local filesystems only.
> > I searched for a while on deja.com, and there seemed to be some indications > that knfsd was bugged and that using the user-mode code would work. > However, no one replied specifically to my message, so I'm still not sure. > > BTW, what I tried to do was to set up a HA configuration of machines B1/B2 > using A as a "shared disk". > This is just to try out the HA software without buying more > hardware.
Try "nbd" the network block device. That should be able to give a more realistic imitation of a share disk.
NeilBrown
> > Thanks in advance for any help! > > Best regards, > Frank Olsen > > PS Happy new year! > > > - > 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/ - 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/
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