My Original question was:
>
>
> We have recently installed CAP patch 195 on our OSF/1 v2.0 system.
> We tried to use AUFS fileserver and cannot get it to offer any volumes on
> NFS-mounted filesystems. We have no problem doing it on our Ultrix
> workstations and we are hoping to migrate the Apple fileserver to our
> Alpha workstation.
>
This problem has taken me quite a bit of time to "solve"...
Thanks to Jim Wright and Kazuro FURUKAWA. With a bit of clue from them
and I bit of hacking, I find the following aufs "feature" on OSF/1 systems :
Firstly, aufs will allow mounting of nfs filesystems with an entry in the
/etc/fstab file explicitly. However, as I use automount to mount most of
the users filesystems here, this solution is not quite practical.
To get automounted nfs filesystem to work, I need to comment out
the BSDQUOTA line in m4.setup and rebuild CAP:
# quotactl - "aufs: used by bsdquota"
# define([X_BSDQUOTA],1)
The above define is enabled by default when I built CAP on my system with
Configure.
There is nothing much mentioned in the CAP documentation on the effect of
disabling this flag - it is not even an option in m4.features. I would like
to hear from anyone that might know any problem associated with turning it off.
Regards,
Shiu
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Received on Wed Aug 02 1995 - 09:24:50 NZST