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Date:      Sat, 22 Jul 2017 13:16:22 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org>
To:        david@catwhisker.org
Cc:        unp@ziemba.us, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: stable/11 r321349 crashing immediately
Message-ID:  <201707222016.v6MKGMPa070777@gw.catspoiler.org>
In-Reply-To: <20170722160233.GY20018@albert.catwhisker.org>

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On 22 Jul, David Wolfskill wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 04:53:18AM +0000, G. Paul Ziemba wrote:
>> ...
>> >It looks like you are trying to execute a program from an NFS file
>> >system that is exported by the same host.  This isn't exactly optimal
>> >...
>> 
>> Perhaps not optimal for the implementation, but I think it's a
>> common NFS scenario: define a set of NFS-provided paths for files
>> and use those path names on all hosts, regardless of whether they
>> happen to be serving the files in question or merely clients.
> 
> Back when I was doing sysadmin stuff for a group of engineers, my
> usual approach for that sort of thing was to use amd (this was late
> 1990s - 2001) to have maps so it would set up NFS mounts if the
> file system being served was from a different host (from the one
> running amd), but instantiating a symlink instead if the file system
> resided on the current host.

Same here.

It's a bit messy to do this manually, but you could either use a symlink
or a nullfs mount for the filesystems that are local.




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