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nfs mount (too many levels of symbolic links)

Hi,

I have a problem regarding nfs mount and pxe/tftp boot.

I have a distro that I want to run on several computers. They must have the exact same layout but some directories are to be separated.

My default distro and its directories are located as following:

Code:

/distros/mvl

/distros/mvl/bin

/distros/mvl/boot

/distros/mvl/etc

...

The directory that I want to mount have the following layout:

Code:

/distros/target

/distros/target/bin -> ../mvl/bin

/distros/target/boot -> ../mvl/boot

/distros/target/etc

...

The problem I encounter is, first of all, I get kernel panic. So, this doesn't work. But the issue is that having nfs mount on symbolic links directories doesn't include their files. trying on target

Code:

#cd bin

I get the output "Too many levels of symbolic links".

Is there anyway to get away from this?

Thanks.
Indy

You understand you have to export ALL the filesystems and not just /distros/mvl? That is to say if /distros/mvl/bin is a separate filesystem mounted on your original server on top of /distros/mvl then exporting and mounting only /distros/mvl will NOT give you access to /distros/mvl/bin FILESYSTEM? It only gives you access to the mount point (empty directory) on which the filesystem was mounted.