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Date:      Thu, 12 Jan 2017 10:25:03 +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:  <C0352C5A-E023-4BF1-B272-67A5F2BE5375@cs.huji.ac.il>
In-Reply-To: <E31AF4B5-9488-4F1A-9584-BD6867E2ADAE@cs.huji.ac.il>
References:  <20170111234737.GK26386@mailboy.kipshouse.net> <E31AF4B5-9488-4F1A-9584-BD6867E2ADAE@cs.huji.ac.il>

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> On 12 Jan 2017, at 9:49 AM, Daniel Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> =
wrote:
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>> On 12 Jan 2017, at 1:47 AM, Karl Young <karly@kipshouse.org> wrote:
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>> 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
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>> On the 7.2 hosts, I can see the exported directory:
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>> $ showmount -e 6.3-host
>> Exports list on 6.3-host
>> /data                              Everyone
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>> And access it with amd
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>> $ ls -l /net/6-3.host/data
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>> drwxr-xr-x     5 root  wheel      512 Jun  4  2009 git
>> drwxr-xr-x  4586 root  wheel    83968 Nov  2 04:50 home
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>> 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).
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>> I export the /data directory on the 9.3 system, and I can see it on =
my
>> 7.2 hosts.
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>> $ showmount -e  9.3-host
>> Exports list on 9.3-host:
>> /data                           Everyone
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>> But I can't automount it:
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>> $ ls -l /net/9.3-host/data
>> ls: /net/9.3-host/data: No such file or directory
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>> If I manually mount the exported directory, it works:
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>> $ sudo mount -t nfs 9.3-host:/data /mnt/data/
>> $ mount | grep nfs
>> 9.3-host:/data on /mnt/data (nfs)
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>> $ ls -l /mnt/data
>> total 4
>> drwxr-xr-x  9 root  wheel  512 Dec 20 17:41 iaf2
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>> 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.
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>> Thanks for any pointers on how to resolve this.
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>> -karl
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> 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.
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s/and/amd/ ^%$# hate spell checkers

> my .5 cents
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> 	danny
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