Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 19:29:03 +0100 From: Laszlo Nagy <gandalf@shopzeus.com> To: jamesh@lanl.gov, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mount -u -o rw / not working on NFS? Message-ID: <4741D5EF.7010509@shopzeus.com> In-Reply-To: <1195495266.6886.17.camel@p25dual1.lanl.gov> References: <4741C8E5.4020201@shopzeus.com> <1195495266.6886.17.camel@p25dual1.lanl.gov>
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>> diskless101#mkdir /aaa >> mkdir aaa: Read-only file system >> >> Question: if the remount did not succeed, why didn't it throw an error? If succeeded, why can't I write on the filesystem? >> >> > > The answer to the second portion is that you're mounted as a read only > file system, so there's no write access. > You were right. Actually I had /etc/exports file setup correctly, but I forgot to invoke "killall -HUP mountd" after the last change. My bad. :-( But... I'm still interested in the first portion. Why didn't I get an error message if the nfs share was read-only? > There's an nfs permissions file you may need to edit, /etc/exports/, > which controls whether NFS shares the file system as read only, read > write, whether root can have root on the file system etc. > The case is solved, but I still have this question. :-) Thanks, Laszlo
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