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From: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
To: John Covici <covici@ccs.covici.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 10:21:14 +1100 (EST)
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Subject: Re: strange nfs behavior in 2.2.18 and 2.4.0-test12
In-Reply-To: message from John Covici on Thursday December 21
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On Thursday December 21, covici@ccs.covici.com wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Neil Brown wrote:
> 
> > On Thursday December 21, covici@ccs.covici.com wrote:
> > > Hi.  I am having strange nfs problems in both my 2.x and 2.4.0-test12
> > > kernels.
> > > 
> > > What is happening is that when the machine boots up and exports the
> > > directories for nfs, it complains that
> > > 
> > > ccs2:/ invalid argument .
> > > 
> > > The exports entry is
> > > 
> > > / ccs2(rw,no_root_squash)
> > 
> > Is there another export entry that exports another part of the same
> > file system to the same client?  If so, that is your problem.
> 
> Well I do want to export the mount points under the file system, for
> instance I have a partition mounted as /usr and so I have an entry
> such as
> /usr ccs2(rw,no_root_squash)
> 
> in my exports list.  Is there any other way to get this behaviour to
> work?

Sounds like what you are doing is OK.
If you could send complete /etc/fstab and /etc/exports, that might
help to isolate the problem.

NeilBrown
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