SUMMARY: nfs mounting to yourself

Several people mentioned symbolic links.  I should have mentioned that I
tried that already and the app was ignoring that and using the full path
which, of course, it hated.

One suggested automount, which I think I tried without success, same
issue.

Several others suggested lofs mounts, which worked.

Revised vfstab entry...

###########################################

#foo:/blah/boo/biff/bopp/bailey/babelfish - /gahgah nfs 3 yes soft,bg

# no, previous entry doesn't work anymore use lofs mount instead

/blah/boo/biff/bopp/bailey/babelfish - /gahgah lofs 3 yes -

###########################################


Thanks to:

Peter Jakobi
Deborah Crocker
Peter Winterflood
Anthony D'Atri
Francisco Roque
Bill R. Williams

########### Original entry (irrelevant stuff removed) ##########

> Bruce Shaw wrote:

> I have a situation with an application that won't read looooooooonnng
> paths.  There's nothing I can do about that piece, get over it.
>
> Deep in the mists of time, as a workaround, someone struck upon the
idea
> of nfs mounting at a lower place in the tree.
>
> Here's what I mean.
>
> server = foo
> loong directory = /blah/boo/biff/bopp/bailey/babelfish
> alternate mount  = /gahgah
>
> /etc/dfstab entry
>
> ###########################################
> share -F nfs -o rw=foo:bar,root=foo:bar /blah
> ###########################################
>
> /etc/vfstab entries
>
> ###########################################
> /dev/md/dsk/d20 /dev/md/rdsk/d20        /blah  ufs     2       yes
> logging
> foo:/blah/boo/biff/bopp/bailey/babelfish - /gahgah nfs 3 yes soft,bg
> ###########################################
>
> relevant output of "mount"
>
> ###########################################
> /blah on /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s6
> read/write/setuid/intr/largefiles/logging/onerror=panic/dev=1d80076 on
> Sun Sep 16 01:28:58 2007
> ###########################################
>
> relevant output of "share"
> ###########################################
> /blah rw=bar:booboo:yogi,root=bar:booboo:yogi
> ###########################################
>
> which matches what is /etc/dfs/sharetab.
>
> End of system configuration:
>
> Discussion:
>
> OK that's just plain weird.  server "foo" isn't on the list and two
> other servers are.  They were shut off two years ago and we've
rebooted
> since then.
>
> I can't unshare /blah 'cause people on "bar" are using it.
>
> How can I get the sharing of /blah sorted out?
>
> "exportfs -a" didn't help.

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