On Tue 24 Feb 2015 20:51:38 NZDT +1300, C. Falconer wrote: [...] I didn't quite follow what you described here, but I trust your conclusion is accurate.
> Conclusion - NFS doesn't like exporting a tree of mounts. IIRC that has been a design feature of NFS since day one (intentionally or as a side effect I don't know). Isn't there a mount etc option somewhere to change that? > But my TV drive is reporting imminent fail, so I'm going to deal to > that. Comments? Copying off asap is a wise move. But using NFS for that?!?? USB<->SATA bridges and SATA chipsets may all have a max size for the disk you can connect to them, probably especially the USB stuff. For this kind of exercise (copying 3TB around) USB doesn't cut the mustard (too slow, too much trouble) and a direct SATA connection is desirable. Don't you have any computer with a spare SATA slot that can handle 3TB? You don't even have to power that computer down, just connect SATA data cable and power the disk somehow. If the SATA chipset is properly supported under Linux a hotplug event will make the disk available soon after. I've done it several times. (No, do not hotplug other stuff on the mobo, like plug-in cards...) rsync is the way to go for copying (though it may truncate time stamps to full seconds), but more like over TCP or ssh, not NFS?!?? Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann http://volker.top.geek.nz/ Please do not CC list postings to me. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
