From: "Bryan J. Smith" Subject: Re: Re: recursive NFS export of mounted ISO images -- Automounter Maps? Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:18:31 -0400 (EDT) Sender: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <1035407911.3db71227b92f3@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 184Sth-0005Vv-00 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 14:18:37 -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 : > Hmmmm. Has it always been in IRIX? I can't find it on our 6.3 > machine. I see you are correct that it's on AIX - I missed it earlier. > And it's on HP-UX. So - perhaps I stand corrected. :-P I apologize since I haven't touched Irix since 1999, but I was fairly certain my Irix 6.x systems had it. Now they _do_ sell NIS/NFS as a separate add-on which we _did_ buy, but that was just the server. I thought the clients came standard. > I'm still a little fuzzy on this, sorry. Is the loopback mount the > key here? You essentially need both. The loopback mount, since that's what is what you are browsing, and the filesystem with the .iso files, because > Wow. I haven't seen it work on HP-UX or Tru64. Maybe I'm missing > something. I've always been able to find binaries. > I misunderstood you, sorry. There's a million ways to run something on a server, but write to a client. Remember, you're using UNIX. ;-P > I certainly won't argue with you. I think, however, sanity issues > aside, we're still contending with a large pool of ISO images. > We have several hundred gigabytes in this part of the array to play > with, of course, but I like to avoid unnecessary (but maybe it IS > necessary) copying of things when I can. Especially when it sucks > space aggressively. > Well, it's come a long way. I'm not in QA, but my group has > greatly reduced the number of physical CD's that get tossed around. > We're trying to get it to where the only time anybody should be > burning CDs is for an alpha or beta candidate. Again, I think the QA department has a "false sense" of a loopback mounted .iso file being the exact same as a CD. Heck, dd a CD then dd an .iso file -- not the same because an .iso file is just the data track format for ISO9660 Yellow Book, not the entire CD. > Here's all the things we've got here: > Linux (x86, PPC, Alpha, Itanium [soon Itanium2]) NIS, Autofs, NSSwitch all there. > Mac OS/X (well okay it's not really UNIX) Hmmm, not sure there though. BSD has an automounter, or maybe you've gotta get amd working? > HP-UX (10.x, 11.x) I've only limited experience with HP-UX (1995 timeframe). > AIX (4.x, 5.x) All there. > Tru64 (5.x) All there. > Solaris (2.5, 2.6, 7, 8, 9) The original GNU platform (I love how the media "trips over itself" wondering why Sun is so much like Linux ;-). > IRIX Again, they should be available there too. > Hmmm - I guess that's not TOO many. Nonetheless, it's a rather > diverse bunch. IRIX and Linux-PPC (and Alpha) are going away soon > (here, that is). Linux/Alpha has always been the engineer's dream platform. UNIX on an ultra-anal RISC platform. Ahhh ... -- 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