[mdlug] Export Mounted ISOs

[Jeff Hanson]

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Ein Bielaczyc <ebielaczyc at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to export via NFS a mounted ISO. I prefer to install via my
> network (with PXE & NFS), and I'd like to keep the distros I download in
> their ISO format (just in case I need to burn it to CD). I can mount the
> ISO just fine. I know NFS is working because I can copy the data out of
> the ISO to the file system I can then access them via NFS. But if I try
> to simply re-export the mounted ISO I see nothing on the remote
> machines.

I think it's a matter of "bind" vs. "rbind".  A loop bind will not
provide access to any sub-mounts in the directory tree while rbind
will.  Check the mount man page.