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- From: grace!fishbone!jdyer@moscom.com (John D. Dyer)
- Subject: Re: Problem with mounts
- Message-ID: <1992Aug22.032820.2912@fishbone.uucp>
- Keywords: nfs mount server
- Sender: jdyer@fishbone.uucp
- Reply-To: grace!fishbone!jdyer@moscom.com
- References: <1992Aug14.070617.461@relief.com>
- Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 03:28:20 GMT
- Lines: 30
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- In article <1992Aug14.070617.461@relief.com> jjfeiler@relief.com (John Jay
- Feiler) writes:
- >OK, So I put an entry in netinfo that mounts
- > machine:/ExternalDisk/local onto /usr/local, options are hard, bg,rw.
- > Everything works great except on the server machine itself. On the
- Server,
- > anytime I try to write to /usr/local/bin, for example, the system hangs.
- > Rock solid. Rigid. Saucer mode. You get the idea.
-
- Well, I don't feel qualified to comment on Netinfo, but I do know that you
- don't want to try to remount a local disk as an NFS mount. From the info
- you've given, it sounds like on your server you have an automount on
- /usr/local that points to server:/ExternalDisk/local. You do not need NFS
- for something that is available locally. I'm not sure if NFS supports an
- NFS server also being its own NFS client. I think you would confuse it.
-
- What you may want to do is just make a soft link on your server that
- points /usr/local to /ExternalDisk/local. The server already has
- /ExternalDiak mounted as a local filesystem, you wouldn't be able to
- export it if it wasn't; you don't need to mount it a second time, and you
- certainly don't want to mount NFS if you can mount BSD (or is it Mach?).
- There's probably people who know more about NFS, perhaps they'd care to
- comment?
-
- John
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