From owner-freebsd-current Tue Aug 1 03:09:45 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id DAA18267 for current-outgoing; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 03:09:45 -0700 Received: from minnow.render.com (render.demon.co.uk [158.152.30.118]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id DAA18228 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 03:05:52 -0700 Received: (from dfr@localhost) by minnow.render.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) id LAA17848; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 11:02:19 +0100 Date: Tue, 1 Aug 1995 11:02:16 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: current@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: High weirdness with current NFS.. In-Reply-To: <199508010331.UAA05285@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 31 Jul 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > I generally have two filesystems mounted from my gateway machine, throck, > to my main development box - time. Both machines run -current. All > fine and dandy, except I recently changed throck's address info a bit > so that it's gateway address (the ppp line) was jkh-gw and its "ethernet" > address was throck. This makes it less confusing for me to deal with > its dual presence in two subnets (naming it "throck" in both is greatly > evil and causes OTHER problems with NFS and the order in which stuff is > looked up in DNS, but I digress). ANYWAY, that's not the issue so much as > that when I changed the name, the mounts no longer worked and the behavior > exibited by NFS in the face of said failure is the "high weirdness" part. > I know WHY it fails, but I don't think it should be failing in this particular > way. To wit: > > root@time-> grep throck /etc/fstab > throck:/usr /host/throck/usr nfs rw,tcp 0 0 > throck:/cdrom /host/throck/cdrom nfs ro,tcp 0 0 > > root@time-> ls -l /host/throck/usr > ls: /host/throck/usr: Permission denied > > Heh?! > > root@time-> ls -l /host/throck > ls: usr: Permission denied > total 2 > drwxrwxr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jan 6 1995 cdrom > > !!! > > /host/throck/usr IS there, if I do: > > root@time-> mkdir /host/throck/usr > mkdir: /host/throck/usr: File exists > > I get the expected result. But to not be able to even look at it as > root? Hmmm! > root@time-> ps ax | grep mount > 86 ?? Is 0:00.11 mountd > 5281 p5 S+ 0:00.03 grep mount > > Nope, no mount running against it, so I don't even have the easy explanation > of the inode being locked somehow as the mount tries futilely to do it.. What is the output of df? mount? -- Doug Rabson, Microsoft RenderMorphics Ltd. Mail: dfr@render.com Phone: +44 171 251 4411 FAX: +44 171 251 0939