From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
To: Dennis Jacobfeuerborn <d.jacobfeuerborn@conversis.de>
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bind mounts, crossmnt and multi client nfsv3
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 14:09:23 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110321140923.5a618d89@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D86B6F2.1070004@conversis.de>
On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 03:24:50 +0100 Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
<d.jacobfeuerborn@conversis.de> wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a storage system that is exporting many directories to multiple
> clients resulting in a lot of mountpoints (156) on each client. What I'm
> trying to do is to create a single directory on the server and then use
> mount --bind to mount all the different directories (which are stored on
> different LVM volumes) into this single export directory and finally export
> this directory to the clients.
> Now the exports man-page mentions the crossmnt option but it also mentions
> that it cannot be used if I want to export the directory to multiple
> clients. Is there another way to accomplish something like this?
>
Just export the top directory with 'crossmnt' - it should work fine.
The 'multiple clients' thing only affects 'nohide' and I think it only
affected it back in 2.4 days.
Lots changed with 2.6, but maybe not enough of the man page changed :-(
So try with 'crossmnt' and if it doesn't work, then come back with details.
NeilBrown
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-21 3:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-21 2:24 bind mounts, crossmnt and multi client nfsv3 Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
2011-03-21 3:09 ` NeilBrown [this message]
2011-03-21 12:27 ` Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
2011-03-21 17:25 ` J. Bruce Fields
2011-03-21 17:53 ` Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
2011-03-21 18:19 ` J. Bruce Fields
2011-03-21 19:04 ` Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
2011-03-22 17:43 ` Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
2011-03-22 17:54 ` J. Bruce Fields
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