...and what version of NFS are you using (both for client and server)? If I remember well NFS v2 doesn't support mknod, so you should try to use NFSv3.
Regards, -Andrea Bernard Li wrote: > What version of SystemImager are you using? > > Cheers, > > Bernard > > ________________________________ > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Gustavo > Sent: Mon 13/02/2006 09:28 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Sisuite-users] creating image on a mounted NFS file system > > > Hi, > > I am having problems creating an image on a nfs mounted file system. > si_getimage fails to create the devices. Bellow a description of the > procedure: > > 1 . ran si_prepareclient run on the golden client; > 2 . created a symbolic link on /var/lib/systemimager/images directory to the > mounted nfs file system. ("ln -s <mounted nfs filesystem>/imagename > linkname"). The creation of the link is working. I can access and write to > the intended detination dir, as well doing cd <linkname> without any > problems. > 3. ran si_getimage (with the appropriate options) on the image server. > > It fails to create the devices in the destination dir. here is the error: > > mknod <device name> : Unknown error 524 > > I read in a post somewhere that it´s not possible to do mknod in an nfs > mounted filesystem. Is this information correct? If it is correct, does > anyone know a workaround for this? > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid3432&bid#0486&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Sisuite-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
