From: John Covici <covici@ccs.covici.com>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: strange nfs behavior in 2.2.18 and 2.4.0-test12
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 18:16:23 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0012211813110.840-100000@ccs.covici.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <14914.32991.480115.210561@notabene.cse.unsw.edu.au>
On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Neil Brown wrote:
> On Thursday December 21, covici@ccs.covici.com wrote:
> > Hi. I am having strange nfs problems in both my 2.x and 2.4.0-test12
> > kernels.
> >
> > What is happening is that when the machine boots up and exports the
> > directories for nfs, it complains that
> >
> > ccs2:/ invalid argument .
> >
> > The exports entry is
> >
> > / ccs2(rw,no_root_squash)
>
> Is there another export entry that exports another part of the same
> file system to the same client? If so, that is your problem.
Well I do want to export the mount points under the file system, for
instance I have a partition mounted as /usr and so I have an entry
such as
/usr ccs2(rw,no_root_squash)
in my exports list. Is there any other way to get this behaviour to
work?
> You cannot export two different directories on the same filesystem to
> the same client if one is an ancestor of the other (because exporting
> a directory is really exporting the directory and all descendants on
> that filesystem, and so exporting a directory and a subdirectory is
> effectively exporting the subdirectory twice with potentially
> different flags).
>
> NeilBrown
>
> >
> > Now in Kernel 2.2.18, if I stop and restart the nfs daemons, all is
> > OK, the invalid argument goes away, but in 2.4.0 I cannot get this to
> > work at all and so I cannot mount nfs from a client on the ccs2 box.
> > I am using the utilities 0.2.1-4 from the Debian distribution if that
> > makes any difference. I did an strace once on exportfs and it was
> > having trouble with the call to nfsservctl which returns invalid argument.
> >
> >
> > Any assistance would be appreciated.
> >
> > --
> > John Covici
> > covici@ccs.covici.com
> >
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-12-21 23:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-12-21 18:37 strange nfs behavior in 2.2.18 and 2.4.0-test12 John Covici
2000-12-21 19:01 ` Charles Wilkins
2000-12-21 22:14 ` Neil Brown
2000-12-21 23:16 ` John Covici [this message]
2000-12-21 23:21 ` Neil Brown
2000-12-21 23:35 ` John Covici
2000-12-22 0:15 ` Andreas Dilger
2000-12-22 0:42 ` John Covici
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