Re: nfs v2.1.103 alpha staleness

Bill Hawes (whawes@star.net)
Wed, 03 Jun 1998 21:34:44 -0400


Pete Wyckoff wrote:

> Can you (or Bill) confirm the following suspicions I have about knfsd?
>
> 1. No named sockets. (Noticed watching syslogd try to create /dev/log)

The code says "not yet implemented".

> 2. No multiple mounts from same filesystem.
> I was trying to mount server:/tftpboot/nfsroot as /, then go and
> add server:/usr as /usr, to save me some hard links on the server,
> but knfsd was unwilling to export both at the same time. Unsfd
> seemed okay with that. I can work around.

Unfsd lets you export a whole tree or just pieces, but knfsd exports
just one mount per filsystem.

> 3. Remount broken in some way.
> server mounts i386-disk-farm-unfsd:/u1 on /home
> client mounts server:/home on /home
> The mount works, and I can say "ls /home" to see a bunch of user dirs,
> but "ls -la /home" fails with "No such file ..." I can work around this
> too, until I go and split up the subnets.

You need to separately export each filesystem, and then mount them the
way you want on the client side.

Regards,
Bill

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