UNCLASSIFIED - RE: [Linux-cluster] iSCSI GFS

Lon Hohberger lhh at redhat.com
Thu Jan 31 15:58:17 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 12:39 +0000, HAWKER, Dan 2 (external) wrote:
> > Is there a way of RE-exporting an NFS share through the 
> > aggregator or am I 
> > overlooking something?
> 
> You can't NFS a NFS share (if I understand what you are saying). Don't
> know the intricacies of why (I'd presume it is to do with keeping track
> of locks down/across the hierarchy of multiple NFS servers), but it
> doesn't work (in my experience anyway).

Also permissions, UID/GID mappings, etc.

> You'll need to export the share (actually the data in the share) you are
> presently NFSing to the aggregator using something else (iSCSI for
> instance) and then NFS that from the aggregator.

Correct.

-- Lon




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