NFS does not serve disks

[BillDozer]

Hi,

I have a problem with my new server.

I have a server with 4 disks, and I am just figuring out how to set it up. Just to check it I created a folder called /sharedData which I serve with NFS.

/etc/exports

/sharedData 192.168.1.0/24(rw,nohide,insecure,no_subtree_check,async)
/etc/fstab

/dev/sdb1 /sharedData/disk2 ext3 rw,defaults 0 2
/dev/sdc1 /sharedData/disk3 ext3 rw,defaults 0 2
/dev/sdd1 /sharedData/disk4 ext3 rw,defaults 0 2

When I look into the disk folders on the server it looks ok.

When I look into the disk folders from the client it is wrong, when I create/copy a file into it the file cannot be seen on the server.

When I unmount the disks, I can see the files created from the client.

What am I doing wrong?

Thx.

[EmmEff]

Export the drives individually in /etc/exports. I thought NFS would be able to cross-filesystems within a single mount point but obviously not well. What client are you using?

[BillDozer]

Yes that works, but it is not what I wanted :-( I'm using feisty as a client

[EmmEff]

You can work around the problem using autofs on the client:

/etc/auto.master:


/sharedData auto.sharedData


/etc/auto.sharedData:


disk1 server:/sharedData/disk1
disk2 server:/sharedData/disk2
disk3 server:/sharedData/disk3
disk4 server:/sharedData/disk4


/sharedData is the pseudo parent directory.

AutoFS is really easy to setup and gives you the effect that you want.

[BillDozer]

Thx. I will try that.