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- From: jackv@orpheus.Corp.Sun.COM (Jack F. Vogel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: TFS usage
- Message-ID: <l8jdeoINNk2o@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 01:07:36 GMT
- References: <1992Aug12.085229.23665@reks.uia.ac.be>
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- In article <1992Aug12.085229.23665@reks.uia.ac.be> frans@kiwi.uia.ac.be writes:
- |Can anybody explain me how one can use TFS under SunOs 4.1.1.
-
- Yes
-
- |Reading the man-pages it seems a very useful tool to me, but the manuals are
- |not very clear how to set it up.
-
- Yes, it is VERY useful, I use it all the time for experimental kernel
- builds.
-
- |Some problems I encountered:
-
- |tfsd only wants to be started from inetd, but inetd.conf doesn't contain
- |an entry for it. I simply copied another RPC entry and made some obvious
- |changes that seems to work. However, I'm not very sure about the changes
- |I made. For example, what's the version number of tfs ?
-
- Here is the inetd.conf entry I use:
-
- tfsd/1-2 dgram rpc/udp wait root /usr/etc/tfsd tfsd
-
- |Then I tried to tfs mount one directory on top of the other. The only thing
- |that happened is the appearance of a .tfsinfo (or something like that) file
- |in the top-directory, and some loopback mounts in /tmp_mnt. However, when
- |I do a 'cd' to the top-directory, it remains empty.
-
- You may misunderstand the working of TFS. You do the NFS mount of the
- filesystem you want to work from, then 'mount_tfs' some local disk space
- on top of it, then 'cd' to the NFS mount point, NOT the TFS disk directory,
- I know that had me confused at first.
-
- |I fear the problem has to do with the automounter which isn't enabled at
- |our site. Do I have to do a minimal setup of the automounter in order to
- |get TFS to work ?
-
- Not sure, I never use automounting in this case. I manually do a read-only
- NFS mount, say of a kernel source tree, then TFS mount, then hack away :-).
-
- Email me if you have further questions.
-
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- Jack F. Vogel Sun Microsystems Inc. jackv@Sun.COM
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