From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 25 23:50:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA19570 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 23:50:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.225.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA19526 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 23:49:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.31.2]) by Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (RBI-Z-5/8.6.12) with ESMTP id IAA17616; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 08:50:59 +0100 Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id JAA25179; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 09:03:51 +0100 From: Christoph Kukulies Message-Id: <199611260803.JAA25179@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Subject: Re: mounting locally In-Reply-To: from Doug White at "Nov 25, 96 10:53:03 pm" To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 09:03:50 +0100 (MET) Cc: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org Reply-To: Christoph Kukulies X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL25 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > On Wed, 20 Nov 1996, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > > > > > Is it possible to mount a local filesystem via nfs into another > > mountpoint in the local fs? Assumed you have mymachine:/a/XFree86 > > and want to mount it into mymachine:~ftp/pub/FreeBSD/XFree86 - > > is that possible? I'm getting > > > > gil# mount gil:/a/XFree86 ~ftp/pub/FreeBSD/XFree86 > > nfs: bad MNT RPC: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Connection refused > > > > here. > > > > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de > > Why would you punish yourself that way? I see you're trying to bypass the > chroot limitation with it, but man the throughput will not be pleasant. > If anything, put /a/XFree86 in ~ftp/pub/FreeBSD/XFree86 and symlink > /a/XFree86 to it. (This is how a friend of mine does FTPable CDROMs) Do you mean this?: ~ftp = /usr/ftp cd ~ftp mkdir a mkdir a/XFree86 lndir /a/XFree86 /usr/ftp/a/XFree86 I havn't tried it but I always thought I cannot reach out to another filesystem from within a chrooted environment. > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de