NFS puzzle

Jonathan Hutchins hutchins at tarcanfel.org
Fri Jun 6 18:23:00 CDT 2003


Quoting Gerald Combs <gerald at ethereal.com>: 
 
> >From what I understand, files are referenced in the underlying system by 
> device:inode.  Exporting multiple filesystems in a directory tree runs the 
> risk of the client running into duplicate inodes.  I'm not sure what 
> trickery the "nohide" option uses to get around this.   
 
That may explain... I tried to do a multiple-package update using URPMI, and 
most of the pacakages failed; they wouldn't display info.  (Bad URPMI 
uninstalled packages that might conflict before checking integrity of their 
replacements.) 
 
So it's back to mounting the CD's for now.  
 
 

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