[ale] Writing to NFS

[Dow Hurst]

Your underlying mount point's permissions override the mount permissions 
in IRIX.  I haven't tested this in Linux.  Umount the filesystem and 
check to see if the mount point is writeable by root.
Dow


David Corbin wrote:

>Can someone explain why the file system is read-only?  mount says it's not.  
>/etc/exports has the rw option on it.
>
>$ mount | tail -1 
>foobar:/home/dcorbin on /data/home/dcorbin/foobar type nfs 	      		
>(rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,addr=192.168.99.3,user=dcorbin)
>$ pwd
>/data/home/dcorbin/foobar
>$ echo >junk
>-bash: junk: Read-only file system
>
>  
>

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