A mounting question for multiple machines?

[Dawes, Stephen]

Have you exported the necessary information on the appropriate machine?
In other words, have you made the necessary entries in the exportfs file
and exported it?




Steve Dawes
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Email: SDawes at calgary.ca
 
 

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca 
> [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Paul 
> Migliorelli (+1 3 0 3 5 1 9 5 3 4 6)
> Sent: 2005 May 25 1:33 PM
> To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> Subject: A mounting question for multiple machines?
> 
> Hi all.  Here's a question from Curtis Willoughby, regarding 
> some of our office setup.  Allas, I have no clue as always.  
> Thanks much.
> 
> We seem to be having trouble with nfs.
> When attempting to mount a file system from another machine, 
> we actually get a local file system mounted.
> 
> The kernel we are using is from slackware 10.0, and, of 
> course, it could have been fixed in a later release.  Here is 
> the uname -a info:
> 
> Linux (machine2) 2.4.26 #33 Mon Jun 14 19:26:13 PDT 2004 i686 
> unknown unknown GNU/Linux
> 
> Mount -v gives:
> 
> mount: mount-2.12a
> 
> We are using md to achieve raid 1 on most of the local file 
> systems.  In particular the local file system that gets 
> mounted incorrectly is a raid 1 file system.
> 
> The fstab entry that missbehaves is as follows:
> 
> (ip_address_of_machine1):/netshare              /mnt/otserver 
>                   nfs    defaults,async,_netdev        0 0
> 
> We are cross-mounting these file systems.  I.e., each machine 
> in the pair has the ability to mount a file system having the 
> same name from the other machine.  There was once a problem 
> with this kind of plan, so we umounted the mount in the 
> opposite direction, and that did not help.
> 
> We found an ethernet interface up on the problem machine 
> without an ip address, and turning that down did not fix the problem.
> 
> We are using the reiserfs, which is apparently a relatively 
> new journaling file system, but we cannot immagine that that 
> could cause this trouble.
> 
> The other machine in the pair has redhat 7.3, running:
> 
> Linux (machine1) 2.4.20-20.7spk2a #1 Fri Oct 10 00:25:03 MDT 
> 2003 i686 unknown
> 
> It is not using raiding, is using ext3, and works correctly.
> 
> Does anyone on this list know of this problem, and its solution?
> Does anyone know anyone who would like to help troubleshoot it?
> or can anyone suggest any troubleshooting methods to further 
> diagnose the problem?
> 
> 
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