From: "Bryan J. Smith" Subject: Re: recursive NFS export of mounted ISO images -- Automounter Maps? Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 16:44:13 -0400 (EDT) Sender: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <1035405853.3db70a1d229ae@webmail.smithconcepts.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: "Bryan J. Smith" , nfs@lists.sourceforge.net Return-path: Received: from knight.01.dios.net ([65.222.230.112] helo=taz2.fiberhosting.com) by usw-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with smtp (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 184SMU-00034i-00 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 13:44:18 -0700 To: Dave Ingram 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: Quoting Dave Ingram : > I understand. But I think it's odd that I did the following > successfully: > 1. Mounted 3 ISO images from the /Source partition to /Jukebox > 2. Added entries for each of the /Jukebox/... directories into > 'exports' > 3. Reloaded NFS > 4. Successfully NFS mounted and used the files from the server > How is that possible if one cannot cross filesystem boundaries on > the server side? The source partition is different than the destination > partition. And you're mounting the source partition too, right? That should work then. > Ah. That's provided that all your clients can deal with autofs. We > have every *NIX flavor you can think of here. The single common > denominator for them is NFS. > Well, you're lucky - Linux and Solaris support autofs and have > consistent mechanisms for configuring them. Some of our *NIX's either > don't have anything like autofs/NIS or have completely different ways of > configuring them. Really? I've messed with AIX and Irix too and it had both as well. Sometimes I've had to create maps named "auto_master_irix" and similiar, but it worked. > I'm still confused then how I was able to perform the experiment > quoted earlier. From all appearances, I *did* cross filesystems (which > as I said confuses me greatly) If you mount _both_ the .iso source _and_ the loopback mount, it _will_ work. > You're assuming again that all the client machines HAVE something > even remotely like "mkisofs". A lot of them do not. First off, mkisofs runs on _everything_ I've seen, even Windows. Secondly, run "mkisofs" on the server, but write on the client. > Unfortunately that just isn't how our software engineering system > works. SQA is explicit about having the files they test be directly > FROM the ISO image. As an engineer myself, used to working in production testing environments, I find this logic rather flawed. You aren't really running from the .iso image anyway. ;-P > Burning many CDs every day and shuffling them around is a > nightmare, which is why we're trying to do this. Again, I think your QA process is not exactly true. > No, I *have* worked with automounter, under Solaris several years > ago. What UNIX client flavors are you running anyway? -- Bryan J. Smith, E.I. Contact Info: http://thebs.org A+/i-Net+/Linux+/Network+/Server+ CCNA CIWA CNA SCSA/SCWSE/SCNA --------------------------------------------------------------- limit guilt = { psychopath, remorse->0 innocent } ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Influence the future of Java(TM) technology. Join the Java Community Process(SM) (JCP(SM)) program now. http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?sunm0002en _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs