MontysEvilTwin
Well-Known Member
I set up a Raspberry Pi as a network media player and was sharing content from my HDR-FOX units as NFS shares. On one unit, as well as the expected '/mnt/hd2' mount, there were additional folders listed ('/media/drive1' to '/media/drive4') but there was no content in any of these locations. I traced these entries to '/mod/etc/exports' and as I had an NTFS-formatted, USB hard drive connected to this HDR-FOX, I changed one of the entries in 'exports' to 'media/usb-drive1'. I then tried to mount this location on another HDR-FOX as an NFS share and it worked. I have not tested what gets mounted if you have more than one USB drive attached on boot. Presumably if you have two NTFS drives connected it could mount either. I doubt it would mount a non-NTFS drive based on this entry as other formats are mounted as 'driveX' rather than 'usb-driveX'. You could, of course, add more entries to the 'exports' file if you wanted. On the plus side, a USB drive mounted in this way does not interfere with the drive space calculation on the HDR-FOX (a known problem when mounting '/mnt/hd2' as an NFS share). The one issue I have encountered is that if you want to unmount the drive using the Web-If eject function, you have to stop the NFS service first: this is trivial, there is a toggle switch in Web-If>Service Management. However, if you then rescan the local USB ports (Web-If eject button) while it mounts OK on the local machine, it is not remounted as an NFS share on the remote machine: the local machine has to be rebooted for this to happen. I would wager that this could be fixed though. If anyone is interested, the error messages encountered when I tried to re-establish the NFS share are presented below:
I also added the entry '/media/My Video' to the exports file. If you set up an NFS share pointing to '/media/My Video' on a remote HDR-FOX this works too (though it does cause the warning '/mnt/hd2/My Video does not support NFS export' to pop up when you start the NFS service) and, as with the USB drive mount, the drive space calculation on the HDR-FOX is unaffected.
FYI the contents of my 'exports' file are shown below:
Code:
One# service start nfs
Starting nfs...
mount: mounting nfsd on /proc/fs/nfsd failed: Device or resource busy
Done.
One# umount /proc/fs/nfsd
One# service start nfs
Starting nfs...
exportfs: /mnt/hd2/My Video does not support NFS export
rpc.nfsd: Setting version failed: errno 16 (Device or resource busy)
Done.FYI the contents of my 'exports' file are shown below:
Code:
"/mnt/hd2" 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0(rw,insecure,no_root_squash,all_squash,no_subtree_check,anonuid=0,anongid=0)
"/media/My Video" 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0(rw,insecure,no_root_squash,all_squash,no_subtree_check,anonuid=0,anongid=0)
"/media/usb-drive1" 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0(rw,insecure,no_root_squash,all_squash,no_subtree_check,anonuid=0,anongid=0)