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- From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
- Subject: Re: autonfsmount
- Message-ID: <1992Dec19.125624.20509@csus.edu>
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- Organization: San Francisco State University
- References: <BzD4pF.FxA@csulb.edu>
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 12:56:24 GMT
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- In article <BzD4pF.FxA@csulb.edu> werts@csulb.edu (Michael Werts)
- writes:
- >Has anyone else experienced trouble with hierarchical
- >mounts using autonfsmount? Did you find a way to make
- >it work?
-
- 1) List the desired mounts in *reverse* order, e.g.:
-
- wuarchive.wustl.edu:/archive/mirrors4 /Net nfs ro,soft,net,intr,timeo=4,nosuid,noquota,retry=2 0 0
- wuarchive.wustl.edu:/archive/mirrors3 /Net nfs ro,soft,net,intr,timeo=4,nosuid,noquota,retry=2 0 0
- wuarchive.wustl.edu:/archive/mirrors2 /Net nfs ro,soft,net,intr,timeo=4,nosuid,noquota,retry=2 0 0
- wuarchive.wustl.edu:/archive/mirrors /Net nfs ro,soft,net,intr,timeo=4,nosuid,noquota,retry=2 0 0
- wuarchive.wustl.edu:/archive/systems /Net nfs ro,soft,net,intr,timeo=4,nosuid,noquota,retry=2 0 0
- wuarchive.wustl.edu:/archive/usenet /Net nfs ro,soft,net,intr,timeo=4,nosuid,noquota,retry=2 0 0
- wuarchive.wustl.edu:/archive /Net nfs ro,soft,net,intr,timeo=4,nosuid,noquota,retry=2 0 0
-
- 1a) wuarchive provides erratic service; sometimes the mountd will
- get hosed, and autonfsmount doesn't like this. It's happened
- to me enough times that I just keep a little shell script
- lying around:
-
- #!/bin/csh -f
- set verbose
- /usr/etc/ping wuarchive.wustl.edu 56 1
- /usr/etc/rpcinfo -u wuarchive.wustl.edu 100003 2
- /usr/etc/rpcinfo -u wuarchive.wustl.edu 100005 1
-
- If it gets all the way through without errors, autonfsmount
- should be happy. If not, I stay out of /Net/wuarchive...
-
- 1b) NFS access to wuarchive.wustl.edu can be slow when it's
- heavily loaded. FTP is usually faster for getting directory
- listings.
-
- 2) Don't chdir "all the way down" if the filesystems aren't
- mounted; just go to the uppermost mount point and wait.
- (Walking through the Browser (starting at /Net) is fine, but I
- wouldn't recommend putting a submount on the shelf.)
- Otherwise you tickle a race condition where the interior mount
- fails (presumably from EBUSY on /private/Net/whatever).
-
- -=EPS=-
-