Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 08:48:51 +1300 From: Tom Peck <tom@masaclaw.co.nz> To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS sharing an NFS Mount Message-ID: <20011009075332.4976B505@stiggy.masaclaw.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <3BC3511C.736F595A@mindspring.com> References: <20011008231240.99429505@stiggy.masaclaw.co.nz> <3BC3511C.736F595A@mindspring.com>
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Ok. Thanks for the explanation. I will have to think about an alternative solution. Cheers Tom On Wed, 10 Oct 2001 08:33, Terry Lambert spoke unto bla: > Tom Peck wrote: > > Is it possible to nfs share a mount that has been mounted using nfs? > > Not without violating safety guarantees in the protocol as > regars not returning writes until they have been committed > to stable storage. > > > I have one system which holds files, which is shared using nfs. I have > > another system which mounts this nfs share from the other system. This > > share then needs to be shared from the second system to all other > > available systems.. > > You can't do this. It sounds like you need a VPN, or to > simply have all the other systems mount the first one. > > > I have tried without success to let this happen. How can this nfs > > mount be added to the /etc/fstab file? I assume it has to be before > > the /etc/exports file has been read.. > > You can't do this because the NFS code will not permit it > to happen. > > By the same token, you do not want to mix any other network > FS with more than one hop (SMBFS, NWFS, AFS, AppleTalk, etc.). > > -- Terry > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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