While I'm thankful that AFS 3.3 included the -submounts flag, I'm somewhat
mystified by it's behavior.
I'm running on a Risc/6000 w/ AIX 3.2.5 Gold + PMP + some fixes
Basically, my inittab looks like this:
init:2:initdefault:
brc::sysinit:/sbin/rc.boot 3 >/dev/console 2>&1 # Phase 3 of system boot
powerfail::powerfail:/etc/rc.powerfail >/dev/console 2>&1 # d51225
rc:2:wait:/etc/rc > /dev/console 2>&1 # Multi-User checks
fbcheck:2:wait:/usr/lib/dwm/fbcheck >/dev/console 2>&1 # run /etc/firstboot
srcmstr:2:respawn:/etc/srcmstr # System Resource Controller
rctcpip:2:wait:/etc/rc.tcpip > /dev/console 2>&1 # Start TCP/IP daemons
rcafs:2:wait:ksh /etc/rc.afs >/dev/console 2>&1
rcnfs:2:wait:/etc/rc.nfs > /dev/console 2>&1 # Start NFS Daemons
cons:0123456789:respawn:/etc/getty /dev/console
Everything is sequenced correctly.
In addition, I do a
/etc/gfsinstall -a /usr/lib/drivers/nfs.ext
at the beginning of /etc/rc.afs. And make sure I load
/usr/vice/etc/dkload/afs.ext.trans rather than afs.ext!
I wanted to add a
fs exportafs nfs on -submounts
at the very end of /etc/rc.afs, so that subdir mounts would be enabled
at boot time! There are several applications here that our customers
use, that require subdir mounts.
At a root prompt, I did the following:
# /usr/afs/bin/fs exportafs -type nfs
Sorry, the nfs-exporter type is currently not supported on this AFS client
#
fs is will continue to return this message, until some machine attempts to
actually do an NFS mount against /afs. From that point on, I get the
following:
# /usr/afs/bin/fs exportafs -type nfs
Exporter type nfs:
is currently enabled for AFS
running in convert owner mode bits to world/other mode
running in no passwd sync mode
Only mounts to /afs allowed
#
Since I can't count on another machine to issue a mount request, I tried
the following in /etc/rc.afs.
mount localhost:/afs /mnt
umount /mnt
fs exportafs nfs on -submounts
Everything works as I expect it afterwards, but this seems awful Kludgey!
Is this the way it is supposed to work??
Chris Cowan
ISSC (SER AFS Support)
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