Re: Bugs in knfsd -- Problem re-exporting an NFS share

[Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>]

On Friday December 29, Frank.Olsen@stonesoft.com wrote:
> Hi -- could you please CC me if you reply to this mail.
> 
> My problem is that I get an error when setting up the following
> configuration:
> 
> A:     /exports/A                                 - Redhat 7.0
> B1/B2: mount /exports/A on /export/A from A       - Redhat 6.2
> C:     mount /exports/A on /mnt/A from B1 or B2   - Redhat 6.2
> 
> I use knfsd/nfs-utils on each machine.
> 
> bash# ls /mnt/A
> /mnt/A/A.txt: No such file or directory
> 

This is not a supported configuration.  You cannot export NFS mounted
filesystems with NFS. The protocol does not cope, and it
implementation doesn't even try.
NFS is for export local filesystems only.

> 
> I searched for a while on deja.com, and there seemed to be some indications
> that knfsd was bugged and that using the user-mode code would work.
> However, no one replied specifically to my message, so I'm still not sure.
> 
> BTW, what I tried to do was to set up a HA configuration of machines B1/B2
> using A as a "shared disk".
> This is just to try out the HA software without buying more
> hardware.

Try "nbd" the network block device.  That should be able to give a
more realistic imitation of a share disk.

NeilBrown


> 
> Thanks in advance for any help!
> 
> Best regards,
> Frank Olsen
> 
> PS Happy new year!
> 
> 
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