NFS and amd on older FreeBSD

[Karl Young]

Daniel Braniss(danny at cs.huji.ac.il)@2017.01.12 10:25:03 +0200:
> 
> > On 12 Jan 2017, at 9:49 AM, Daniel Braniss <danny at cs.huji.ac.il> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >> On 12 Jan 2017, at 1:47 AM, Karl Young <karly at kipshouse.org> wrote:
> >> 
> >> I inherited a lab that has a few hundred hosts running FreeBSD 7.2.
> >> These hosts run test scripts that access files that are stored on
> >> FreeBSD 6.3 host.  The 6.3 host exports a /data directory with NFS
> >> 
> >> 
> >> On the 7.2 hosts, I can see the exported directory:
> >> 
> >> $ showmount -e 6.3-host
> >> Exports list on 6.3-host
> >> /data                              Everyone
> >> 
> >> And access it with amd
> >> 
> >> $ ls -l /net/6-3.host/data
> >> 
> >> drwxr-xr-x     5 root  wheel      512 Jun  4  2009 git
> >> drwxr-xr-x  4586 root  wheel    83968 Nov  2 04:50 home
> >> 
> >> I'm trying to retire the 6.3 host and replace it with 9.3 (I know it's
> >> old, but it's the best I can do for now).
> >> 
> >> I export the /data directory on the 9.3 system, and I can see it on my
> >> 7.2 hosts.
> >> 
> >> $ showmount -e  9.3-host
> >> Exports list on 9.3-host:
> >> /data                           Everyone
> >> 
> >> But I can't automount it:
> >> 
> >> $ ls -l /net/9.3-host/data
> >> ls: /net/9.3-host/data: No such file or directory
> >> 
> >> If I manually mount the exported directory, it works:
> >> 
> >> $ sudo mount -t nfs 9.3-host:/data /mnt/data/
> >> $ mount | grep nfs
> >> 9.3-host:/data on /mnt/data (nfs)
> >> 
> >> $ ls -l /mnt/data
> >> total 4
> >> drwxr-xr-x  9 root  wheel  512 Dec 20 17:41 iaf2
> >> 
> >> I've spent some time on Google, but haven't found a solution.  I realize
> >> these are very old versions, but I'm not in a position to upgrade them
> >> right now.  My last resort will be to use /etc/fstab to do the NFS
> >> mount, but I'd rather avoid that if I can.
> >> 
> >> Thanks for any pointers on how to resolve this.
> >> 
> >> -karl
> >> 
> >> 
> > 
> > if you changed the export file on the server after you tried to mount in on the client,
> > and will not realise this, if that’s the case, usually rebooting the client helps.
> > 
> s/and/amd/ ^%$# hate spell checkers
> 

Thanks Danny

I did try rebooting the client (and server) multiple times to no avail.

-karl

> > my .5 cents
> > 
> > 	danny
> > 
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