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Date:      Thu, 12 Jan 2017 09:49:22 +0200
From:      Daniel Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
To:        Karl Young <karly@kipshouse.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Stable Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: NFS and amd on older FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <E31AF4B5-9488-4F1A-9584-BD6867E2ADAE@cs.huji.ac.il>
In-Reply-To: <20170111234737.GK26386@mailboy.kipshouse.net>
References:  <20170111234737.GK26386@mailboy.kipshouse.net>

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> On 12 Jan 2017, at 1:47 AM, Karl Young <karly@kipshouse.org> wrote:
>=20
> I inherited a lab that has a few hundred hosts running FreeBSD 7.2.
> These hosts run test scripts that access files that are stored on
> FreeBSD 6.3 host.  The 6.3 host exports a /data directory with NFS
>=20
>=20
> On the 7.2 hosts, I can see the exported directory:
>=20
> $ showmount -e 6.3-host
> Exports list on 6.3-host
> /data                              Everyone
>=20
> And access it with amd
>=20
> $ ls -l /net/6-3.host/data
>=20
> drwxr-xr-x     5 root  wheel      512 Jun  4  2009 git
> drwxr-xr-x  4586 root  wheel    83968 Nov  2 04:50 home
>=20
> I'm trying to retire the 6.3 host and replace it with 9.3 (I know it's
> old, but it's the best I can do for now).
>=20
> I export the /data directory on the 9.3 system, and I can see it on my
> 7.2 hosts.
>=20
> $ showmount -e  9.3-host
> Exports list on 9.3-host:
> /data                           Everyone
>=20
> But I can't automount it:
>=20
> $ ls -l /net/9.3-host/data
> ls: /net/9.3-host/data: No such file or directory
>=20
> If I manually mount the exported directory, it works:
>=20
> $ sudo mount -t nfs 9.3-host:/data /mnt/data/
> $ mount | grep nfs
> 9.3-host:/data on /mnt/data (nfs)
>=20
> $ ls -l /mnt/data
> total 4
> drwxr-xr-x  9 root  wheel  512 Dec 20 17:41 iaf2
>=20
> I've spent some time on Google, but haven't found a solution.  I =
realize
> these are very old versions, but I'm not in a position to upgrade them
> right now.  My last resort will be to use /etc/fstab to do the NFS
> mount, but I'd rather avoid that if I can.
>=20
> Thanks for any pointers on how to resolve this.
>=20
> -karl
>=20
>=20

if you changed the export file on the server after you tried to mount in =
on the client,
and will not realise this, if that=E2=80=99s the case, usually rebooting =
the client helps.

my .5 cents

	danny

>=20
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