From: Matt Bernstein Subject: Re: bind mounts and rpc quotas: horrible interactions Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 14:06:07 +0100 (BST) Sender: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: Received: from nick.dcs.qmul.ac.uk ([138.37.88.61]) by usw-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Cipher TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 17WctF-0001GI-00 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 06:06:18 -0700 Received: from nick.dcs.qmul.ac.uk ([138.37.88.61]) by nick.dcs.qmul.ac.uk with asmtp (TLSv1:EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.10) id 17Wct6-0002ll-00 for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 14:06:08 +0100 To: nfs@lists.sourceforge.net In-Reply-To: Errors-To: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: OK--we manually hacked rpc.rquotad to look in the right place, but our hack has knowledge of where our right place is, and no knowledge of bind mounts :-/ Did my mail make any sense to anyone? Matt On Jul 10 Matt Bernstein wrote: >Hi, > >I've only just noticed after upgrading our Debian potato server to woody >(some weeks ago) all rpc quotas are not working properly. > >Our home directories are /homes/$LOGNAME where /homes is an autofs (yp) >mount. On client machines this is an NFS mount. On the server under potato >/homes contained a load of symlinks to /exportxx/users/$LOGNAME where xx >is some value. Under woody this is a bind mount. Fair enough, I think. > >Client machines cannot see the quota information unless users (in their >home directory) do a "ln -s /exportxx/aquota.user". At this point they can >now interrogate their quota information--but it's not updated when they do >i/o to their home files. All of this seems wrong and horrible! > >Does this even make sense to anyone? Downgrading is awkward.. > >Any help very gratefully received, > >Matt > > > >------------------------------------------------------- >This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek >Two, two, TWO treats in one. >http://thinkgeek.com/sf >_______________________________________________ >NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs