Grant Parnell said: > On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Simon Bryan wrote: > >> Hi all, >> This is a continuation of a problem I was having before, where >> directory >> is exported via NFS but when it is mounted on another machine gives an >> old >> copy of the directory. >> >> I think I know what is happening but not the cure! >> >> The directory in question is /var/auc/course, but I have just realised >> that in fact there is a second (IDE B) drive mounted at /var/auc/course >> (I >> ran out of room on the old disk and simply copied the data to the new >> disk >> and then mounted it). I believe that what I am seeing on the NFS share >> is >> the original directory from the first IDE drive. I can't unmount at the >> moment and see, as this would bring down a particularly busy system, >> need >> to give 24 hours notice! >> >> Does this sound logical? If so is there a way I can get the NFS mount to >> see the real data on the second IDE drive? > > Not sure if someone's beaten me to it but there's no ideal way with NFS > that I know of. It will always exhibit this behaviour because of the way > it uses inodes or something techie like that(tm). In other words it can > only handle ONE FILESYSTEM PER MOUNT. > Solution 1: > add the mount point to /etc/exports on the NFS server > Solution 2: > Use another technology such as Samba > > NFS will allow full unix permissions & attributes to be maintained but (as > far as I'm aware) Samba won't since it's emulating DOS permissions. IE the > files will appear to be owned by the same user and have approx 0x775 > permissions (-rwxrwxr-x) depending on how you set it up.
Yeah I can probably use Samba as it is already running, the permissions problem is not a huge problem as this is for the backups and the permissions can always be changed if and when a file is copied back to the live system. Thanks for that, I was getting very confused as to where these files were coming from. -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
