[TriLUG] installing RH via the network
Jeremy Katz
katzj at linuxpower.org
Thu Jan 16 19:04:27 EST 2003
On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 11:14, Kevin Sonney wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 10:47:35AM -0500, Jeremy Katz spoke thusly:
> > You can't do the loopback mount and symlink trick for NFS due to how
> > exports work (would require 3 separate exports and 3 separate mounts and
> > some other weirdness)
>
> Not necissarrily - I think the original thought from you was to loop mount
> the disk(s) under the target directory like so :
>
> /path/to/disks/.disk1
>
> Then symlink the .disk1/ files into disks/ That should work across an
> NFS mount, correct?
That would work with the userspace nfsd, but not with knfsd. knfsd
requires a separate export for each mountpoint and thus you also have to
have a separate mount for each.
Cheers,
Jeremy
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