Bug 176821 (TapeShare) - Bad: Wont work for sharing tape drives
Summary: Bad: Wont work for sharing tape drives
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: TapeShare
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Classification: Red Hat
Component: nfs-utils
Version: 3.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Steve Dickson
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-01-03 12:14 UTC by Rajesh Kanchan
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2007-04-15 20:32:33 UTC
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Description Rajesh Kanchan 2006-01-03 12:14:26 UTC
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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.
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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.



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