On Tuesday 10 May 2005 07:11 pm, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Brett,
> Thanks. Now both machines are mounting. Actually the FC2 machines
> mount immediately. The Gentoo laptop takes about 90 seconds before it
> mounts. I don't see any messages about what's taking so long, but at
> least it mounts.
>
> Thanks!
>
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I'm coming in late to this thread so allow me a bit of slack if I sound dense
or repetitive... :') Something I'm doing more often as I get older...
If I understand what's going on here.... :') It's quite similar to an issue I
had in recent years with nfs setups.
In my early nfs setups, I wanted to access a data disk mounted on the server
as /mnt/data. On that disk, was a directory that I wanted data from, named
"music". So on the server, I had this path; /mnt/data/music. The mount point
"/mnt/data" was to a single partitioned ide hard drive, /dev/hdb1...
The server side looked like:
/
/mnt
/mnt/data/music
Where /mnt/data was /dev/hdb1... music was the target...
if I setup the server exports to read:
/ clientIP(options...)
Then mounting the server from a client with:
mount -t nfs server:/ /mnt/servermount
I would be able to browse all of the resources on the server, BUT, was unable
to access the data at /mnt/servermount/mnt/data/music. All I'd get was a
blank/empty directory... In fact, everything I accessed under /mnt was
empty...
After much hair pulling, teeth nashing, etc... I finally made this in the
server exports file:
/mnt/data clientIP(options...)
On the client side, I mounted the resource with:
mount -t nfs server:/mnt/data /mnt/servermount
Now I was able to read the data on the server under /mnt/data/music on my
local mountpoint /mnt/servermount. In fact I had access to all of the
resources on /mnt/data.
I haven't done imperical testing or nfs document reading, but I would suspect
that trying to access an attached/mounted filesystem off the server, across
nfs, simply isn't allowed.
Under options in the above examples... the usual rw/ro flag, insecure,
no_root_squash and no_subtree_check were used. Oddly, there's an option named
"nohide" that's supposed to allow my first exports entry to work. It didn't.
Cheers... I'm off to bed....
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