10.9 issues with NFS volumes

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10.9 issues with NFS volumes

First time posting, so Please guide me in the rite direction if I am in the wrong place.

The issues is with 3 systems, 2 Mac Pro desktops and an imac. All are newer than 2010 models, the imac is a late 2012. All are running 10.9.2. When mounting an NFS connection to the /Volumes/ all the local partitions on all local drives become unuseable. Going through to disk utilitys shows the partitions as needing to be verified. Once the partitions are verified, all drives become NFS Formats and cannot be accessed. If we reboot the machines, all drives work properly until connecting the NFS connection.

The reason this is needed, is AFP does not support mounting to volumes from what I have been able to find, and Final Cut Pro requires local drives to be used. The issue with this is we have a 15TB NAS on the network for the 4k video being worked on, and NFS speeds through 10gb network connections provide the fastest transfer rates.

Any information appreciated. And please let me know what other information I can provide to help find a solution

Thanks

Mac Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.2), ATTO FastFrame FF-NT12 10GBase

Posted on Mar 27, 2014 8:08 AM

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Mar 27, 2014 10:00 AM in response to McMTechsupport

OK, I jumped the gun, I FOUND A SOLUTION through another source. I will post it here incase others have the same issue.

Apple removed the mount option from Disk Utility in OSX 10.9, not sure why, OSX being based on BSD and using a variant of a linux kernal, this should be fully supported. But thats Apple for you.

What I found was this. When you mount an NFS to the root Volumes it causes all kinds of headaches with the other volumes as they attempt to access and use the NFS one. This caused all my partitions and drives to be unuseable when mounting an NFS volume. To fix this, with the help of https://gist.github.com/lawrencealan/8697518 and the author Larry, we discovered creating /Volumes/YourNAMEHere/ and then mounting to that volume/YourNAMEHere/ resolves the issues..... Here is my command to do it, and everything is working flawlessly for me.

in terminal, the following two commands

mkdir /Volumes/Videos

sudo mount -o rw,bg,hard,resvport,intr,noac,nosuid,tcp fullyqualifieddomainnamehere:/Videos /Volumes/Videos

type your mac password when prompted.

Hope this helps someone!

CheerS

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