Fired up NFS and got it working... but I am seeing something that doesn't make sense to me.....
We're installing piles of trial software from IBM, many that necessitate copying images of CD media to local file systems. That takes a while with a 100 mbit ethernet card. SO what I did instead was use NFS. It works fine with files that are the local file system but not with files that are CD images mounted using the loopback device. Basically copied cd to disk via dd : dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/images/file_name_of_the_moment.iso and the mounted it via the loopback driver mount -o loop,ro /images/file_name_of_the_moment.iso /cdimage The file names of course have been changed to protect my sanity. When I mount the NFS directory I shared and on which I mounted these CD's using the loopback thingy I only see the mount points, not what is mounted on them. /etc/exports looks like /images itasca(ro) calhoun(ro) pepin(ro) phalen(ro) nokomis(ro) rockhopper(ro) pequot(ro) and if mount the iso image elswhere and to the whole tar -clpSf thing into the actual mountpoint, the files show up via NFS. Just not the mounted ISO image. Why is that? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
