portage sharing with nfs [solved]

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alhambra · Post by **alhambra** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 12:33 pm

hi,
i tryed to share my portage in my lan. so i followe[/quote]d the http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Using_a_sh ... ge_via_NFS howto. but if i try to mount the portage on my xbox (700Mhz,64MB ram) over a 10Mbit/s lan it does nothing. waiting 3 houres dosen't help...
mounting other resources like a my mp3 archiv is no problem. i'm confused...

my /etc/exports

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/usr/portage/ 192.168.0.0/24(async,rw)

could anybody help me or does someone know the problem?

thx
alhambra

Post by **NeddySeagoon** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 1:01 pm

alhambra,

I dont have the trailing /, so mine looks like

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/usr/portage 192.168.0.0/24(async,rw)

What form of the mount command do you use ?

alhambra · Post by **alhambra** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 1:43 pm

i use mount 192.168.0.1:/usr/portage /usr/portage

alhambra · Post by **alhambra** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 1:54 pm

i don't know why but removing the / alt the end made it. now it works
thx

madchaz · Post by **madchaz** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 12:37 am

What user are you mounting it as?
You might want to put it read only and use the no_root_squash option. If you don't, then you won't get acces to it as root.

Also, I was having the same kinds of issues when manualy mounting nfs folders. What I did is I added them in fstab and have the nfs-mount service mount them. That's a lot faster.

Post by **NeddySeagoon** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 5:50 pm

madchaz,

Be sure to use the

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bg,_netdev

options on nfs auto mouts in fstab.
bg allows the mount to run as a background task, thats essential to be able to boot when the nfs is not available.
Without that, mount will not return and the boot will stall until the share is available.
_netdev tells mount not to attempt the mount when the network is not avaiable. e.g in single user mode.

mdeininger · Post by **mdeininger** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 9:21 am

Neddy, I was looking for options like that for ages, *thanks* =)

madchaz · Post by **madchaz** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 5:04 pm

NeddySeagoon wrote:madchaz,

Be sure to use the
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bg,_netdev
options on nfs auto mouts in fstab.
bg allows the mount to run as a background task, thats essential to be able to boot when the nfs is not available.
Without that, mount will not return and the boot will stall until the share is available.
_netdev tells mount not to attempt the mount when the network is not avaiable. e.g in single user mode.

Interesting. When using netmount, it'll actualy fail very fast and allow me to boot anyway if I don't have network.