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

John Finlay finlay at moeraki.com
Wed Jun 4 16:26:17 UTC 2014


On 6/4/2014 8:20 AM, Raymond Wagner wrote:
> 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.

Mounting one NFS filesystem on another NFS filesystem has been commonly 
used from the beginning of NFS: diskless systems did this all the time.


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