[Lustre-discuss] lustre patched client subdirectory mount

[Andreas Dilger]

On 20-Oct-09, at 11:19, Piotr Wadas wrote:
> With NFS if I export "aa.bb.cc.dd:/" directory, I can mount e.g.
> aa.bb.cc.dd:/var/log on client, seems it's impossible on lustre
> patched client - so currently the only way is to mount lustre FS,
> and do mount -o bind on client to achieve the same effect?


Correct.  We do not yet support sub-mounts, but as you say, it is
possible on Linux to do a bind mount and then umount the original
mountpoint.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.