[CentOS] Re-exporting an NFS mount.. Possible?

Tue Jul 13 15:32:20 UTC 2010
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

Kwan Lowe wrote:
> I have an issue that is not all that unique, so I'm hoping someone has
> done it before.
>
> On the client end I have some very old RedHat based systems. On the
> server end is a Windows 2008 system running NFS server software. The
> clients mount the server resource as an NFS2 mount but some compliance
> issues were discovered with the setup. For various reasons, updating
> the client is not an option at this time. The fix the issue, the
> server needs to export NFS3 mounts but the clients do not support that
> version.  As a workaround, I considered adding a third system running
> CentOS that would mount the server and re-export it to the clients.
> This will mitigate the current issue related to visibility of the
> share from certain groups.
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You might look at unfs, which can re-export. I used it with glusterfs, so
as to have a head node.

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