Subject: NFS question.
To: NetBSD/VAX Mailing List <port-vax@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Brian D Chase <brianc@carpediem.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 06/15/1997 22:12:03
On my netbooted VS3100/38 I've got my root filesystem NFS mounted.  When I
try to mount additional filesystems under say /mnt, the mount command
completes without error but the newly mounted filesystem is inaccessible.

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atari-vax# pwd
/
atari-vax# df -k
Filesystem              1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity Mounted on
voodoo:/mp/d1/atari-vax   1335166   848614   417555    67%    /

atari-vax# ls -ld /mnt
drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel  1024 Jun 15 21:41 /mnt

atari-vax# mount -t nfs voodoo:/home/netbsd /mnt

atari-vax# df -k
Filesystem              1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity Mounted on
voodoo:/mp/d1/atari-vax   1335166   848663   417506    67%    /

atari-vax# ls -ld /mnt
ls: /mnt: Permission denied

atari-vax#
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Both the root and the additional NFS exports reside on a Linux based NFS
server.  Both exports have been given rw access to root on the VS3100
machine.  Also, when in the "/" directory, if I run a long listing ls,
then mnt doesn't show up.  If I run a normal ls then the directory name
does show up.

The question is... Is this undesirable NFS behavior a bug or feature? :-)

-brian.
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