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<font size="+1"><tt>Dear colleagues,<br>
<br>
My apologies for my previous posting where the subject line was
meaningless!!<br>
<br>
I have a problem in that some of the file systems that I wish to mount
via nfs will not do so with write permissions set.<br>
<br>
I have acquired 4 (substantially) identical machines that I intend to
use as a cluster (using gigabit ethernet), and also have linked to my
other Unix (IRIX) machines (using 100Mbit ethernet).<br>
<br>
The basic configuration of the new machines is:<br>
AMD64 Athlon/1Gbyte RAM/80Gbyte disk/Gigabit ethernet/. <br>
Each machine is running Fedora Core 4 obtained from the five x86-64 iso
discs. I chose the option to load "everything".<br>
<br>
The four machines are named Daffodil1, Daffodil2, Daffodil3, Daffodil4<br>
<br>
Each of the four discs is partitioned by the loading process thus:<br>
/dev/hda1 10 Gbytes / (System)<br>
/dev/shm 5 Gbytes (Swapspace)<br>
/dev/hda3 65 Gbytes /home (working area) <br>
<br>
It is my wish to allow each of these four machines to be able to read
and write<br>
in each other's "working areas".<br>
<br>
To this end I constructed the (relevant parts of) /etc/fstab thus:<br>
.<br>
.<br>
LABEL=/home1 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 # From the loading
process<br>
.<br>
.<br>
Rose:/userdisc12 /userdisc12 nfs rw,bg 0 0 # Mounting an SGI
disk<br>
.<br>
.<br>
Daffodil1:/home /daffodil01 nfs rw,bg 0 0 # Added by me<br>
</tt></font><font size="+1"><tt>Daffodil2:/home /daffodil02 nfs
rw,bg 0 0<br>
</tt></font><font size="+1"><tt>Daffodil3:/home /daffodil03 nfs
rw,bg 0 0<br>
</tt></font><font size="+1"><tt>Daffodil4:/home /daffodil04 nfs
rw,bg 0 0</tt></font><br>
<font size="+1"><tt>.<br>
.<br>
etc<br>
<br>
THE PROBLEM<br>
<br>
Despite requesting that the (remote) mounts are read/write (rw) it has <br>
proved impossible for (say) Daffodil1 to be able to write to the file
system<br>
daffodil02. It is also not possible for daffodil1 to write to
daffodil01 even though daffodil01 is effectively an alias for /home on
daffodil1. (daffodil1 can write to /home on daffodil1)<br>
<br>
The machines (daffodil1 --- daffodil4) have no problem in writing on
the remote mounted discs on SGI machines (e.g. /userdisc12)<br>
<br>
What am I missing? Is there some crucial flag that I have not set?<br>
Is there a fundamental difference in the way that "mount" works under
UNIX and LINUX?<br>
<br>
Note that machines are named Daffodil1 etc, while file systems are
named daffodil01 etc. (extra 0). <br>
<br>
Any help would be appreciated.<br>
<br>
Yours truly<br>
<br>
Peter Bladon<br>
<br>
<br>
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