On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 02:09:21PM +0200, Prunk Dump wrote: > Hello NFS team ! > > I have sometimes trouble using NFSv4 referrals and I don't really > understand where the problem come from. Here the configuration steps > that expose the situation : > > --------------------------------------------- > 1) standard nfs4 export (works) > --------------------------------------------- > My server export a file tree like this : > > /myexport/dirA > /myexport/dirB > > To do this I have bind mounted as usual the tree root in the NFS root : > > mount --bind /myexport /srv/nfs4/myexport > /srv/nfs4/myexport > 172.16.0.0/16(sec=krb5,rw,async,no_subtree_check) (in /etc/exports) I'm not sure why you're doing this. (It used to be necessary to do something like this (with the addition of an fsid=0 option on the root export) for NFSv4 exports, but that hasn't been necessary for a while. You can skip this step and just mount server:/myexport/dirA from the client. > Everything is OK. > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > 2) dirA redirection, bind mounted to itself (works) > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > I now want to redirect dirA to another server "anotherserver". So I > bind mount the dirA folder to itself. > > mount --bind /srv/nfs4/myexport/dirA /srv/nfs4/myexport/dirA > /srv/nfs4/myexport/dirA > 172.16.0.0/16(refer=/myexport/dirA@anotherserver,sec=krb5,rw,async,no_subtree_check) > (in /etc/exports) > > Now the redirection works as expected. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 3) mount remote dirA on the original server (first problem) > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > But the original server need to keep access to the "dirA" files. So I > need to mount the redirected "dirA@anotherserver" tree on "myserver". > > mount -t nfs4 -o sec=krb5 anotherserver:/myexport/dirA /myexport/dirA I'd recommend mounting it someplace that isn't under an export, otherwise this will get a bit complicated. --b. > > But as /myexport is bind mounted, this command create another mount > point on /srv/nfs4/myexport/dirA. > > # mount > ... > anotherserver:/myexport/dirA on /myexport/dirA ... > anotherserver:/myexport/dirA on /srv/nfs4/myexport/dirA ... > > So, as this command create a mount point at the right position, where > the redirection start, I initially think that the initial self binded > mount /srv/nfs4/myexport/dirA is useless now. So I keep the only the > nfs4 mount. > > But strangely the redirection does not works anymore. And I don't > understand where is the problem. > > ###### > first solution tried : mount remote to /myexport/dirA, adding an > additional bind mount (don't works) > ###### > > I tried to add another bind mount over the nfs mount. I now have four > mount points ! > > anotherserver:/myexport/dirA on /myexport/dirA ... > anotherserver:/myexport/dirA on /srv/nfs4/myexport/dirA ... > anotherserver:/myexport/dirA on /srv/nfs4/myexport/dirA ... > anotherserver:/myexport/dirA on /myexport/dirA ... > > But this does not solve the problem. No redirection. > > ###### > second solution tried : mount remote nfs directly to > /srv/nfs4/myexport/dirA (works !) > ###### > > If a mount the remote share directly to /srv/nfs4/myexport/dirA : > > mount -t nfs4 -o sec=krb5 anotherserver:/myexport/dirA /srv/nfs4/myexport/dirA > > as /myexport is bind mounted, this create another mount point on > /myexport/dirA : > > # mount > anotherserver:/myexport/dirA on /srv/nfs4/myexport/dirA ... > anotherserver:/myexport/dirA on /myexport/dirA ... > > But the mount points are in reverse order now. And in this case it > works ! I can access the remote share in /myexport/dirA. And the other > clients are redirected to anotherserver. > > But I can't understand why... > > Why the mount order is so important ? > > Thanks ! > > Baptiste. > -- > 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 -- 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
