Subject: Re: NFS question.
To: Brian D Chase <brianc@carpediem.com>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 06/16/1997 10:02:08
You might need to use privileged ports in the mount request
(-P)...
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On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, Brian D Chase wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> ---
> 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#
> ---
>
> 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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