Subject: Mounting an nfs on top of an mfs
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Bruce Martin <brucem@cat.co.za>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 02/24/2000 09:13:52
Hi all,

We have two NetBSD/i386 machines. Machine A has an mfs mounted on it
(mount -t mfs -o -s=32768 swap /mnt). We want to access this mfs from
Machine B, so we do a mount_nfs -q 123.123.123.123:/mnt /mnt. The "exports"
file is set to correctly export mount with read/write rights, and mountd and
nfsd are running. However, when we try this, we get "permission denied"
problems, and after the mount, when I try to do "ls -l /mnt" I get
"Input/output error". As soon as I make /mnt a non-mfs (just a normal ffs)
on Machine A, then Machine B accesses it properly.

Is it possible to mount an nfs on top of a mfs like this? Are there other
(better?) ways to achieve this?

Thanks
 Bruce