NFS and different exports to the same host
dap
dap99 at i-55.com
Fri Feb 20 19:23:15 PST 2004
Per the FreeBSD handbook, I have to follow the rule that for a specific host
I have to export everything the same for a particular filesystem. So let's
say I have one filesystem, /.
So I can't have:
/export1 -ro server1 server2
/export2 server1
Instead, I need:
/export1 \
/export2 \
server1
Is there a way around this?
I have found that it works best for us to have a /exports, where we dump
things like /exports/www, /exports/mail, and so on, rather than having
filesystems for each of those. This is important since FreeBSD has a
limitation on the number of possible slices, and we are running with one big
RAID-1 storage system.
Also, I found that this generates errors (by mountd -r):
/export1 -maproot=nobody \
/export2 -maproot=root \
server1
While this works:
/export1 \
/export2 \
-maproot=root \
server1
That's no good. Is there a solution to this problem?
By the way, I have found that FreeBSD is a solid NFS server. Other than this
limitation NFS has worked great.
Handbook on NFS:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-nfs.html
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