Bug 176821 (TapeShare)

Summary:	Bad: Wont work for sharing tape drives
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3	Reporter:	Rajesh Kanchan <rajesh.kanchan>
Component:	nfs-utils	Assignee:	Steve Dickson <steved>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Ben Levenson <benl>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	3.0
Target Milestone:	---
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:		Story Points:	---
Clone Of:		Environment:
Last Closed:	2007-04-15 20:32:33 UTC	Type:	---
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

Description Rajesh Kanchan 2006-01-03 12:14:26 UTC

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)

Description of problem:
Bad: When i try to share my tape drive DLTVS 80 on linux network using NFS then it gives /dev/st0: not a directory.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
nfs-utils-1.0.5-3

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. mount -f nfs root@<IP Address of sharing server>:/dev/st0 <mount point>
2.
3.
  

Actual Results:  /dev/st0: not a directory

Expected Results:  mount /dev/st0 on the specified mount point

Additional info:

Comment 1 Jeff Layton 2007-04-15 20:32:33 UTC

I'm sorry, but this makes no sense at all.

1) you can't mount a char device on a mountpoint
2) even if you could, mounting a block device over NFS like this won't work
3) I'm not sure what the "root@" is supposed to mean here, but that's not valid
syntax for a NFS mount either

I'm going to go ahead and close this as NOTABUG. Please reopen if you have more
info about why it is one.