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Neil Williams wrote:
I've been toying with NFS and I'm confused on NFS and removable drives:
I don't have any quick answers as I haven't done enough of this with Linux, but HP-UX and Solaris are the same in this regard. Stop thinking in terms of mount points and directories.... think inodes and file handles, and filesystems. You don't export /export/share (inode XXXX, filesystem 1) you mount something onto /export/share (i.e. filesystem 2) and export (inode YYYY, filesystem 2). Thus you can only share a filesystem after it is mounted, and you have to unmount to unload CD normally even if it happens by magic. Export before mount and people see inode XXXX, filesystem 1, which is hopefully an empty directory (oops - I meant inode list of other inodes). HP-UX is particularly painful in it's support for CD filesystems, and I've been known to copy entire CD's to disk just to avoid having to use their PFS utilities..... -- Are you using the Internet to best effect ? www.eighth-layer.com Tel: +44(0)1395 232769 ICQ: 116952768 Moderated discussion of teleworking at news:uk.business.telework -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.