[mythtv-users] Shared filesystem that looks different to different machines

[Raymond Wagner]

On 6/4/2014 10:53 AM, Joseph Fry wrote:
> I don't believe that NFS would have any issue with nesting a mount 
> inside another mount like this, after all the OS just treats it as 
> another filesystem and every linux system I have ever seen does this 
> (/dev, /proc, etc).

NFS can have issues if you mount one NFS volume within another NFS 
volume.  If access to the lower volume is ever anything but 100% stable, 
and the mount point for the upper volume is lost, bad things happen.  
It's the same reason why you never use an NFS share for swap space.