Re: [Sheflug] removable media over nfs...

["wulfie" <nospam [at] wulfric7.co.uk>]

my systems are entirely ReiserFS (except /boot obviously) and I have no
problems with nfs mounting them. ISO is also fine...I do a fair number of
network installations from CD via NFS.

Matthew Palmer said....

> ext2 and (I think) ISO9660 filesystems are fine over NFS.  The problem is
> that not all filesystems have the right support for NFS in them - it's not
> just a matter of saying "well, this person wants to access a file, and
> they're not local, but we'll do it anyway".  NFS is deep magic, when
trying
> to code in the support in the filesystem.  There has been a lot of stink
> recently over Reiser not allowing NFS mounts.  That's in the fixing, too.


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