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Started by John Jay Feiler
Fri, 14 Aug 1992 07:06
Problem with mounts
Author: John Jay Feiler
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 07:06
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 07:06
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Howdy: I'm having a bit of a problem with some directories that I'm mounting vi an entry in the / doamin of the NetInfo hierarchy I want to mount /usr/local on all machines in our network from our server machine. OK, So I put an entry in netinfo that mounts machine:/ExternalDisk/local onto /usr/local, options are hard, bg,rw. Everything works great except on the server machine itself. On the Server, anytime I try to write to /usr/local/bin, for example, the system hangs. Rock solid. Rigid. Saucer mode. You get the idea. I'm sure I'm just missing someting stupid, but I can't seem to get this straight. Is there something wierd about autonfsmount that won't let me mount something from the same machine. Is this some kind of terrible No-No, that I'm unaware of? I realize that I could just mount it as /Net/server/ExternalDisk/local, and set up a symbolic link on all the machines, but then I have to do it on ALL THA MACHINES, and I thought netinfo was supposed to solve problems like that..... Thanks, John
Re: Problem with mounts
Author: John D. Dyer
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 03:28
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 03:28
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In article <1992Aug14.070617.461@relief.com> jjfeiler@relief.com (John Jay Feiler) writes: >OK, So I put an entry in netinfo that mounts > machine:/ExternalDisk/local onto /usr/local, options are hard, bg,rw. > Everything works great except on the server machine itself. On the Server, > anytime I try to write to /usr/local/bin, for example, the system hangs. > Rock solid. Rigid. Saucer mode. You get the idea. Well, I don't feel qualified to comment on Netinfo, but I do know that you don't want to try to remount a local disk as an NFS mount. From the info you've given, it sounds like on your server you have an automount on /usr/local that points to server:/ExternalDisk/local. You do not need NFS for something that is available locally. I'm not sure if NFS supports an NFS server also being its own NFS client. I think you would confuse it. What you may want to do is just make a soft link on your server that points /usr/local to /ExternalDisk/local. The server already has /ExternalDiak mounted as a local filesystem, you wouldn't be able to export it if it wasn't; you don't need to mount it a second time, and you certainly don't want to mount NFS if you can mount BSD (or is it Mach?). There's probably people who know more about NFS, perhaps they'd care to comment? John -- ********************************************************* * John D. Dyer * NeXTMail : grace!fishbone!jdyer@moscom.com * If above fails : jdyer.wbst129@xerox.com
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