Just to confirm - you want to nfs export an mfs filesystem to
	another box?
	If you're looking for a shared 'fast' filesystem whos contents
	do not matter on reboot and you cannot get the above to work you
	could always use a normal ffs and mount it async.


		David/absolute

On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Bruce Martin wrote:

> 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
> 
>