On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 08:57:27AM +0000, Paul Howarth wrote: > On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 16:33, Olaf Mueller wrote: > > Adam Stokes wrote: > > > > > did you export the cdrom device in /etc/exports? > > Yes. And if /mnt/cdrom is not mounted on this host, I can access the > > path /mnt/cdrom by nfs. But if the CD is in the drive and the drive is > > mounted, I can't access it by nfs. > So you are trying to mount a remote directory as local:/mnt/cdrom when ... > # mkdir /mnt/nfs-cdrom > mount -r server:/mnt/cdrom /mnt/nfs-cdrom If you are attempting to mount the mounted filesystem things could get strange as the host system does it's thing. Perhaps export /mnt then nfs mount /mnt. With that done the local mounting and unmounting of the CDROM could look like adding and deleting a directory not a filesystem. It is unclear to me what happens with NFS when the exported dir vanishes and reapears. There is always some confusion if you have a file in a dir open then mount a filesystem on top of it. -- T o m M i t c h e l l spam unwanted email. SPAM, good eats, and a trademark of Hormel Foods.
