Mounting a iso image (specifically oracle media) via loop and then exporting these via nfs does not work correctly. In the deep trees on the oracle media, the client willnot be able to see some files, this can be made better by going to the server and doing a find . -print in the iso mount point. Result is that sharing loop mounted iso does not work for oracle. Version: 0.3.1-13 How Reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. mount -o loop /oracle.iso /iso/oracle 2. add to exports 3. service nfs reload on client 4. mount srv:/iso/oracle /mnt/oracle 5. ls in directorys such as: ./stage/Components/oracle.xml.classgen.java/1.0.2.0.0/1/DataFiles/lib.0.0.jar Actual Results: No files found....
I could not install "null" beta via NFS .iso images, or when those images were loopback mounted; but a directory of collected RedHat/* file trees succeeded. The exporting system was RHL 7.3/i686 updated with all errata as of July 1, 2002 (via www.tummy.com/KRUD monthly CD-ROM). When the exported directory contained only -rw------- 1 jreiser jreiser 671547392 Aug 20 13:26 null-i386-disc1.iso -rw------- 1 jreiser jreiser 669417472 Aug 20 16:23 null-i386-disc2.iso -rw------- 1 jreiser jreiser 678625280 Aug 20 19:43 null-i386-disc3.iso then the NFS installer complained that RedHat installation directory could not be found. When I added three directories and loopback mounted each .iso on the corresponding directory drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 21 21:03 disc1 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 21 21:03 disc2 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 21 21:03 disc3 -rw------- 1 jreiser jreiser 671547392 Aug 20 13:26 null-i386-disc1.iso -rw------- 1 jreiser jreiser 669417472 Aug 20 16:23 null-i386-disc2.iso -rw------- 1 jreiser jreiser 678625280 Aug 20 19:43 null-i386-disc3.iso then I got the same complaint. When I added another directory and did "cp -var *.iso all" drwxrwxr-x 3 jreiser jreiser 4096 Aug 21 21:23 all drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 21 21:03 disc1 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 21 21:03 disc2 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 21 21:03 disc3 -rw------- 1 jreiser jreiser 671547392 Aug 20 13:26 null-i386-disc1.iso -rw------- 1 jreiser jreiser 669417472 Aug 20 16:23 null-i386-disc2.iso -rw------- 1 jreiser jreiser 678625280 Aug 20 19:43 null-i386-disc3.iso and pointed the installer at the 'all' directory, then installation proceeded (with no changes to ethernet, firewall, etc.; so those were not the problem.)
Still interested in this one? Can reproduce on RHEL 3?
I have a similar problem (on RHEL 3 update 5) at work. We mount a whole lot of ISO images (more than 300) and make them available to Windows clients with Samba. This works well. RHEL 3 NFS clients, OTOH, do not "see" any files or directories -- only the mount points.
Oops, user error. I expected that exporting the root of the tree would work; instead one should export every single mountpoint ...
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