[ale] Copy to remote NFS goes to wrong file system?

[James Sumners]

That seems to have fixed the problem. Thank you.

That doesn't make any sense to me, though. Why wouldn't NFS honor the
mount points on the server? Isn't it supposed to expose the local file
system? And aren't mount points part of that local file system?

2009/10/12 Björn Gustafsson <bg-ale at bjorng.net>:
> The way NFS normally operates, it ignores mounted filesystems that are
> below the directory it is exporting.  This can cause confusion.  So in
> the case you describe, exporting /backups/remote does not
> automatically also export the filesystem for
> /backups/remote/<hostname>.  By contrast, if you were to export
> /backups/remote/<hostname> and remotely mount it directly, you would
> get the behavior that you wanted.
>
> There are a couple of other ways to get around this problem, but
> unfortunately I don't remember them at the moment.  I vaguely recall
> that you need to put all the mount points into /etc/exports on the NFS
> server.


-- 
James Sumners
http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/

"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts
pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it
is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become
drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."

Missionaria Protectiva, Text QIV (decto)
CH:D 59