At Wed, 10 Nov 2010 13:46:38 +0100 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote: > > Hi, > > In my office I have a server running CentOS 5.5. I have Apache+PHP+MySQL running > on that server, and I'm exporting /var/www/html, so I can mount it on my main > desktop with NFS. > > Server : grossebertha > Desktop : babasse > > [root at babasse:~] # mount > /dev/sda3 on / type ext4 (rw) > proc on /proc type proc (rw) > sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw) > devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) > tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) > /dev/sda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw) > /dev/sdb1 on /Disque2 type ext4 (rw) > none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw) > sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw) > grossebertha:/var/www/html on /home/kikinovak/Sites type nfs > (rw,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=14,intr,addr=192.168.1.252) > > Now I'm thinking about configuring a few roaming profiles here with NIS/NFS, > using 'babasse' as my main machine. In that case, I would export babasse's > full /home to the local network, and then configure authentication with NIS. > > I wonder if it can be a problem when one of the directories, in that case > /home/kikinovak/Sites, is already an NFS mount. I can't really figure it out, > but I guess I vaguely fear some situation similar to the one displayes in > "Being John Malkovich", where John Malkovich enters the secret trapdoor to his > own thoughts. > > Thought I'd better ask before doing something silly. NFS is not going to be happy about exporting a nfs mounted file system -- actually it just won't do it. If some machine foo mounts babasse:/home as /nfs/babasse/home, /nfs/babasse/home/kikinovak/Sites will be an empty directory. Machine foo would have to mount grossebertha:/var/www/html on its own. > > Cheers, > > Niki -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 / heller at deepsoft.com Deepwoods Software -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ () ascii ribbon campaign -- against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org -- against proprietary attachments