[ale] Writing to NFS

[David Corbin]

On Tuesday 11 November 2003 10:24, Dow Hurst wrote:
> Your underlying mount point's permissions override the mount permissions
> in IRIX.  I haven't tested this in Linux.  Umount the filesystem and
> check to see if the mount point is writeable by root.

Here is the umounted mount point.

drwxr-sr-x   69 dcorbin  dcorbin      4096 Nov 11 10:30 foobar/


> Dow
>
> David Corbin wrote:
> >Can someone explain why the file system is read-only?  mount says it's
> > not. /etc/exports has the rw option on it.
> >
> >$ mount | tail -1
> >foobar:/home/dcorbin on /data/home/dcorbin/foobar type nfs
> >(rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,addr=192.168.99.3,user=dcorbin)
> >$ pwd
> >/data/home/dcorbin/foobar
> >$ echo >junk
> >-bash: junk: Read-only file system

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David Corbin <dcorbin at machturtle.com>