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From: verleun@fys.ruu.nl (Vincent Verleun)
Subject: [NetBSD] remote home directory?
Message-ID: <1993Jul16.110221.1400@fys.ruu.nl>
Keywords: kernfs home NetBSD fstab exports
Organization: Physics Department, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1993 11:02:21 GMT
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Howdy all,
Is it possible to have a $HOME on a remote server?
The thing is, I have a 1Gbyte SCSI drive attached to a server which runs
NetBSD and I also have 9 other NetBSD machines (with 170Mbyte IDE HDs).
I'd like to register all users to the SCSI and use the local HDs for
swapping and local stuff.
I exported a part of the SCSI HD in '/etc/exports' on the server machine,
and the server gets mounted by the '/etc/fstab' on the client machines.
So far, so good. But if I build a passwd entry on a client machine using
the mounted server filesystem, the client machine gives me a real odd path
which starts with 'kernfs'. Like this:
>SERVER(ruuserver): /etc/exports:
/usr -root=0 ruuclient1 ruuclient2
>CLIENT(ruuclient1): /etc/fstab:
/dev/sd0a / ufs rw 1 1
kernfs /kern kernfs rw 1 1
/dev/sd0e //usr ufs rw 1 2
ruuserver:/usr /server nfs rw,rsize=1024,wsize=1024 0 0
(Yeah, yeah, I'm using NE1000/2000's)
>CLIENT(ruuclient1): /etc/passwd:
odd_ball:*:10000:10000::/server/users/oddball:/bin/tcsh
^^^^^^^
The path I get when I do a 'pwd' on a client in the oddball home-directory
reads: '/kernfs/users/oddball'.
Where does the '/kernfs' come from? It looks like some ghost filesystem,
anybody got any clue?
BTW it all works, but the path still bothers me.
Regards,
Vince.
--
Vincent Verleun verleun@fys.ruu.nl.
Utrecht University Physics Department Data Acquisiton Group.
Buys Ballotlab 063b, Princetonplein 5, 3584 CC Utrecht, the Netherlands.