On Mon, 09 Aug 1999 12:32:17 +0800 Hugo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
concerning 'nfs mountpoints':
> Hi All
>
> Since we upgraded our fileservers to RedHat 6.0 we have some unusual
> problems with nfs. We installed the latest nfs rpm:
>
> knfsd-1.4.6-2 and knfsd-clients-1.4.6-2
>
> but we are finding that mount points cannot be "carried trough". What I
> means is this: suppose the computer exporting filesystems has the
> following partitions:
>
> /home/kidna/year1
> /home/kidna/year2
>
> Previously, the clients were able to mount this with a single entry in
> their fstab file, that is:
>
> kidna:/home/kidna /home/kidna ext2 defaults 0 0
>
> and the year1 and year2 directories (although on different partitions)
> would be mounted also.
>
> But now, with knfsd, you have to specify the name of the full partition,
> that is, in fstab you have to specify fully:
>
> kidna:/home/kidna/year1 /home/kidna/year1
> kidna:/home/kidna/year2 /home/kidna/year2
>
> This to me looks like a step backwards.
>
> Anyone knows whether it is still possible, ie whether one can still
> mount /home/kidna/year1 and year2 as
>
> /home/kidna
>
> on the client?
>
> It may also be that this is an incompatibility between RedHat versions,
> as the servers are RedHat 6.0 but the clients are still RedHat 5.2.
> Maybe that is the issue?
>
> Any information would be most welcome.
>
don't know if this is what you mean, but on our RH6 we'd do something
like this:
on kidna:
mount <dev> /home/kidna/year1
mount <dev> /home/kidna/year2
and export /home/kidna.
Then on clients we can:
mount kidna:/home/kidna
and get the whole tree. One thing to note, you cannot use df on
clients to see remaining space in the mounted partitions this way.
Hope that helped,
Dan
Dan Boger - Georgetown Institute for Cognitive and Computational Sciences
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 1130750
Georgetown University Medical Center Washington, DC
