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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in2.uu.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!uni-regensburg.de!newsserv.uni-bayreuth.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: NFS exporting a CDROM Date: 2 Mar 1996 20:16:48 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 31 Message-ID: <4haabg$af@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <31331F7C.4578@metrosol.demon.co.uk> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 Steve Gailey <steveg@metrosol.demon.co.uk> writes: > I wish to export a CD rom from my FREEBSD system to a couple of PC's. I > already export a couple of other file systems from this machine with no > problems. > > What I have is that I cannot export it as a filesystem, because I am not > mounting the CD untill after the NFS daemons have started, so the > directory > specified in /etc/exports is nothing but a mount point. > > If I export a filesystem and then mount the CD on a directory within > that > filesystem, nothing is seen by the pc's. > > Do I need to wake up the nfs daemons? You can kill -HUP `cat /var/run/mountd.pid` for this. You could also put a CD-ROM into the drive and have it mounted at boot time. If you are going to replace the CD later, mountd will automatically get notified about this. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)