From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 13 23:36:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA28168 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 23:36:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts6-line16.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA28163 for ; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 23:36:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA02170; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 23:36:08 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 23:36:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: "Wayne M. Barnes" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NFS ignores mount point. It's happening again. In-Reply-To: <199708102015.PAA08219@barnes1.wustl.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 10 Aug 1997, Wayne M. Barnes wrote: > Dear FreeBSDers, > > mount newcomputer:/ /newcomputer > (cd /usr; tar cf - .)|(cd /newcomputer/usr; tar xvf -) > > df on new computer shows / filling up, and /usr not changing > at all. The NFS mount is ignoring and disrespecting the mount points > on newcomputer. The tar copy is filling up /, ***under the /usr mount point*** > > Is this misbehaviour, or what? Is this a bug in mount, NFS, tar, or me? I wasn't aware nfs mounts crossed mountpoints. If you want to do this, don't you have to specify -alldirs in /etc/exports and mount the sub-mountpoints manually? Am I barking up the wrong file tree? :-) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo