Re: How to use DFly sources via nfs?

[Hiten Pandya <hmp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 02:59:18PM -0700, walt wrote:
>
> > I now have two DFly machines and I'm trying to spare DFly some bandwidth
> > by sharing the sources directory via nfs.
> >
> > The problem is that quickworld halts immediately with missing file
> > errors, obviously related to the /usr/src symlink.
> >
> > I have /usr from the first machine nfs_mounted (ro) on /mnt on the 
> > second machine.
> >
> > I have /usr/src symlinked to /mnt/usr/src.
> >
> > Is there an environment variable I need to set in order to make this
> > work?  Any other requirements?
>
>
> I'm not sure of an environment variable, but using symlinks for the build
> location is very likely to hit bugs of one sort or the other.
> Building in any location works fine IF you are using a real directory.
> An alternative (untried) would be a read-only nullfs mount, from
> /mnt/usr/src to /usr/src. This has the advantage of the working getcwd()
> which the symlink doesn't have.

	And if you cant' mount it directly to /usr/src, then use
	a UNION mount:

		mount_union /mnt/usr/src /usr/src

	This ought to uncover some interesting bugs. :-)

	*me whistles*

		-Hiten
		hmp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx