From owner-freebsd-fs Tue Oct 9 12:50:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from stiggy.masaclaw.co.nz (203-79-83-205.cable.paradise.net.nz [203.79.83.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B46B37B408 for ; Tue, 9 Oct 2001 12:50:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from there (unknown [192.168.0.80]) by stiggy.masaclaw.co.nz (Postfix) with SMTP id 4976B505 for ; Tue, 9 Oct 2001 20:53:32 +1300 (NZDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Tom Peck To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS sharing an NFS Mount Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 08:48:51 +1300 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <20011008231240.99429505@stiggy.masaclaw.co.nz> <3BC3511C.736F595A@mindspring.com> In-Reply-To: <3BC3511C.736F595A@mindspring.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20011009075332.4976B505@stiggy.masaclaw.co.nz> Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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