Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 7 Sep 2001 09:17:16 -0500 | From | Tim Walberg <> | Subject | Re: nfs is stupid ("getfh failed") |
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On 09/07/2001 08:58 -0400, Michael Rothwell wrote: >> From: "Neil Brown" <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> >> >> > This is not allowed, and makes no sense. >> >> It apparently is (or was, anyway) allowed, because it worked until the >> server was rebooted. Fluke? >> Are you saying that, if I export "/export", I can mount "/export/home" from >> a client machine? That's nice. >>
Yes. At least that's how Solaris, Irix, HP/UX, and several others do it. The general rule is something along the lines of "if /a is exported, anything that is a subdirectory of /a is accessible via NFS, so long as it is on the same device (partition - actually major/minor pair)". So, if /export/home in your case lives in the same file system as /export, it is accessible via NFS as well. Now if /export/home is it's own mount point (i.e. a separate file system), then it needs to be exported explicitly.
>> > Simply remove the second line and your problems should go away. >> >> Thanks. I actually switched to two explicit exports; /export/files and >> /export/home, which works. >>
This works as well, with the caveat that you cannot then mount /export itself on client machines.
tw
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