could use some troubleshooting tips

[Seth Galitzer]

Nick,

I've tried both using the /etc/init.d script to restart and "exportfs
-ra".  The error doesn't show up in any logs that I can find, just on
the console (stdout).

Here's one more bit of info: the mount point on the master where I mount
the debian mirror via nfs is /mnt/mirror.  The subdirectory where the
mirror repository is located is "debian".  So once you mount the mirror,
the full path to the repository is /mnt/mirror/debian.  This is the path
I'm trying to export.

I've been playing aorund with the export directories.  If I change the
export path to /mnt/mirror, I get the same "Invalid argument" error when
trying to export it to a single IP.  But if I change it to /mnt, then
the error is not returned.  Once I figured this out, I tried mounting
that remotely.  I can do that and see down to /mnt/mirror (from the
remote machine) but I can't see anything below that, ie the mirror
repository.

Can you not "double-dip" NFS in this manner (remote-mount a
remote-mount)?  If that's the case, then what do I need to do to be able
to use my existing debian mirror as the source for building child nodes
without routing through to the outside network?

Thanks again.
Seth

On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 10:40, Nicolas Triantafillou wrote:
> Seth,
> 
> How are you restarting nfs? using the /etc/init.d/ script ?
> 
> I can see your error on the client, can you paste the server log which 
> is showing 'invalid argument'? is nfs support compiled into your kernel?
> 
> Nick.
> 

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Seth Galitzer			sgsax at ksu.edu
Computing Specialist		http://puma.agron.ksu.edu/~sgsax
Dept. of Plant Pathology
Kansas State University