Brian Long wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 14:26 -0800, Collins, Kevin [MindWorks] wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>      this is a bit off-topic, but I figured someone on this list
>> will know the answer: is there a way from an NFS client system to
>> discover all of the NFS filesystems exported by a remote server?
>>
>> I'm trying to establish some monitoring for a NAS appliance, and I'd
>> like to have one of our servers "automagically" mount all the exported
>> filesystems - hopefully to prevent missing when a new one export is
>> added or removed.
>
> Please be careful using showmount -e as the only method of monitoring a
> NAS appliance. If you do actually mount the exported filesystems as
> part of the monitoring, that's better.
>
> I've run across NFS servers where it was responding to showmount
> requests, but mountd had died, so it was not allowing any new mounts.


only last night I encountered a problem, I can see part of the hierarchy
into the directory tree, but not all of it. Eg
/home is mounted
/home/summer is visible.
/home/summer/something is visible, but nothing deeper.

I've not figured that one out yet.



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