On Wed, 2011-09-28 at 16:02 -0700, Venkateswararao Jujjuri wrote: > > On 09/26/2011 04:03 AM, Sreeram B S wrote: > > Hi, > > I am Sreeram. This question is related to NFS. > > I have a typical scenario. Please assume that there are 3 machines M1, > > M2, M3. Each of them are having directories /tmp/abc in them. All the > > NFS permissions are set appropriately. > > Now, a user mounts M2's /tmp/abc on M1's /tmp/abc by issuing mount > > command on M1. Mount is successful. > > Then the user mounts M3's /tmp/abc on M2's /tmp/abc by issuing mount > > command on M2. Mount successful. > > Now I would expect the contents of M3's /tmp/abc to be shown as output > > of 'ls' issue on M1. But this is not happening. I am unable to > > comprehend the reason. Could you please guide me? > > What are you seeing instead? Are you seeing M2's contents on M1? > Did you try to change the order of the experiment? i.e First mount M3 on > M2 and then mount M2 on M1? Just curious to see if there is any change > in the behavior. As Bruce said, re-exporting of NFS-mounted filesystems is not supported by the Linux server. Just mount M3's contents directly onto M1, or use a NFSv4 referral (man 5 exports0. Trond -- Trond Myklebust Linux NFS client maintainer NetApp Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx www.netapp.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
