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- From: clr@dgp.toronto.edu (Stephen Bohus)
- Subject: mounting optical disks over nfs
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.164719.21068@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
- Keywords: optical disk
- Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
- Date: 24 Jul 92 20:47:20 GMT
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- Optical disks on a Maxtor Tahiti I drive can be changed and
- mounted via nfs on client machines without rebooting the server.
- The steps to do this are as follows:
-
- umount /usr/people/optical [on all clients]
- umount /usr/people/optical [on server]
- exportfs -uav [on server; clears nfs exported directories]
- exportfs -av [on server; exportfs the new directory]
- mount /usr/people/optical [on server]
- mount the optical via nfs [on all clients]
-
- This solution came from Jack W. Howarth. He also noted the following:
-
- > It appears that the NFS optical directory gets stale handles when you
- > change disks and the NFS directories must be recreated. We have found
- > that umounting and mounting the NFS optical directory isn't enough.
- > You must re-export the optical directory to get the 'fresh' NFS handles.
- > Jack
- > -------------------------------------------------------------------------
- > Jack W. Howarth, Ph.D. Univ. of Texas Medical School
- > Research Fellow P.O. Box 20708
- > Department of Biochemistry Houston, Texas 77225
- > -------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- - Stephen Bohus (clr@dgp.toronto.edu)
-