On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 12:25:25AM +0300, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: > > I think the main difference is that ML answers are given late at night, > with late-at-night moods (and tiredness), for better or worse :-).
I disagree. I often do email at the early hours of the morning :) But you're certainly right that a mailing list answer carries with it no explicit[1] responsibility and no warranty, unlike something you paid for. [1] explicit, unlike implicit. I *hate* being wrong in public, and therefore will usually check my facts three times before posting. Usually. > > ObLinux: how do I share easily an entire machine's hard disk with > > other machines? NFS sharing / led to all sorts of nastiness. Pointers > > to FMs welcome. > > Can you give more details? What is the exact need? For example, > I run some machines with nfsroot, so exporting their *physical* > disk is trivial. Do you refer to a physical disk, all the local > partitions, all mounted FSs (including /proc, nfs)? Ok, setup: one small LAN, one server (fwall + outside services), one development machine and two test machines. Test machines should be running differnt distributions from time to time, so a shared nfs root is not a good option. Ideally, the development machine's '/' and all regular file systems mounted on it should be nfs mounted (or otherwise accesible) on the test machines. > What problems did NFS exporting / cause? it was a combination of NFS exporting / and trying to access things as root, I suppose. Missing directories, inaccessible files, strange errors from programs that deal with the file system (mv, cp, etc). > Did you try the usermode nfs server? (from > <ftp://linux.mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de/pub/linux/people/okir>. > Not maintained for a long time, but still might be useful). How might it be useful? > Did mount --bind somewhere and NFS exporting it didn't work either? > Note I didn't try this myself, but writing this answer makes me > want to try (for diskless machines' server - I currently do not > share its "/"). I am not aware of mount --bind. I'll RTFM. Thanks, Muli. -- Muli Ben-Yehuda syscalltrack hacker-at-large
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