Error mount NFS -- nfs4_get_rootfh

[Geoffrey Leach]

On 01/01/2012 08:30:18 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 01/02/2012 12:06 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> > On 01/02/2012 11:56 AM, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> >> Hmmmm ... well, I blew that. I removed (rm -rf) the entry in /
> >> nfsexports for /usr/local. And away went the entire directory. 
> What
> was 
> >> the correct method?
> > Ahhh....no.   The entries in /nfs4exports were the results of the
> "mount
> > --bind".  You should have simply done an "umount".
> >
> 
> I should not try to answer while watching the NY Giants playing the
> Cowboys.....
> 
> What I meant to say was that "after the directory entries were 
> created
> a
> "mount" was performed to mount the directory that is going to be
> exported.  So, you needed to unmount the file system first.
> 
> Hope you didn't lose too much.

Discovered a flaw in my backup script :-(, but otherwise a valuable 
lesson.