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

[Joseph Fry]

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


I could see problems like Raymond describes if it were two different NFS
servers and you were nesting... but on the same server, I'd imagine that if
one went, the other would as well anyway.
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