F10 nfs installs

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Fri, 2008-11-28 at 21:43 -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> Mike Cloaked wrote:
> > 
> > Interestingly I was trying to set this up from an existing F9 system with
> > SElinux enabled, and following the guidance at the page you quote I did:
> > [root at physics30 f10]# mount -o loop
> > /home/mike/isos/f10/Fedora-10-i386-DVD.iso /mnt/tmp -t iso9660
> > then 
> > [root at physics30 f10]# cp -a /mnt/tmp/images .
> > cp: cannot create directory `./images': Permission denied
> > 
> > This is the same whether root or user.  However cp -r does get copies of the
> > files!
> 
> Don't use "cp -a" to copy read-only filesystems.  "cp" will create the 
> destination directories with the same read-only permissions, and will be 
> unable to write files into them.

This is incorrect. Mounting a filesystem read-only has nothing to do
with the mode bits on the individual files/directories.

(In fact I always use rsync for this kind of thing, but whatever).

poc