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how to have a local directory somewhere under an NFS mount?

  friend setting up an NFS mount to share some python scripts was
explaining to me that these scripts are set up in such a way that they
expect, on the NFS client, to find their client-specific R/W data
directories somewhere *below* (that is, within) the NFS mount.

  i kind of cringed at that, and suggested it would be way easier to
simply pass the script(s) a single environment variable defining where
the data was to be found, but apparently that will require some major
rewriting.

  is there a simple way to mount a local directory somewhere below an
NFS mount point on the client? i haven't messed with NFS for a while
so i've forgotten pretty much everything i ever knew about it. can one
create a symlink to a directory outside of the NFS mount so that all
clients have their own data directory?

  or perhaps a bind mount, or something similar? thoughts?

rday


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