At Sat, 25 Jun 2011 00:17:19 +0800 CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 6/24/11, John Hodrien <J.H.Hodrien@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > /dev/shm's how I would do it. > > > > Make a file on /dev/shm and the format it, mount it, export it. > > > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/shm/export bs=1M count=1000 > > mke2fs -j /dev/shm/export > > mount -o loop /dev/shm/export /mnt/foo > > > > Then export /mnt/foo > > Thanks for this. > > One note though, it does not seem to work if I mount the ramdisk into > a subfolder and export the parent folder. e.g mount to > /mnt/test/ramdisk and export /mnt/test would given the same problem. > But mounting directly to /mnt/ramdisk and export /mnt/ramdisk is OK When you export a file system, *other* file system mounted under the exported file system are not exported. This is normal (and I believe documented) behaviour of NFS. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 / heller@xxxxxxxxxxxx Deepwoods Software -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ () ascii ribbon campaign -- against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org -- against proprietary attachments _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos