Otto Haerter wrote:

> Are there any tricks to use directories with symbolic links to other
> directories (on other filesystems) under a nfs server ?
> It doesn't work (Suse Linux 8.0), from a client you see only the name of
> the linked directory an not the contents. Mounting the directory with
> mount --bind /xyz/subdir /nfs-exportdir/subdir also doesn't work.
> The problem is that network installation from lokal nfs-server for Linux
> 9.1 doesn't work, because it's a old maschine with several disks and
> partitions and i had to share the distribution files to several (3)
> partitions...

The link is resolved by the client, so the directories
must match on that side. Then use relative links instead
of absolute links, so that they will work independent of the root.

-- glen