Alexander Hall wrote: > The problem is that nfs shares does not traverse file system > mount points once initialized. Since nfs probably was started > prior to mounting the msdos partition (with the noauto option in > /etc/fstab), nfs would only share the contents of the mount > point directory itself. > > A ``pkill -HUP mountd'' might help after mounting the msdos file > system, in order to make mountd aware of the new file system > "overriding" the mount point directory.
I'm sorry, it doesn't work like you expect. On the OpenBSD server: ~% grep usb /etc/fstab /dev/sd0i /mnt/usb msdos rw,nodev,nosuid,noauto,noexec 0 0 ~% grep usb /etc/exports /mnt/usb -maproot=han:nfs marsupilami ~% mount |grep usb /dev/sd0i on /mnt/usb type msdos (NFS exported, local, uid=1000, gid=0) ~% sudo pkill -HUP mountd ~% ls /mnt/usb foofile On the linux client: ~% mount G /mnt/usb haddock:/mnt/usb on /mnt/usb type nfs (rw,addr=172.16.11.1) ~% ls /mnt/usb # Han
