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SubjectRe: NFS 2.2beta40 (fwd)
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"G. Allen Morris III" <gam3@harpo.ixlabs.com> writes:
> > Knfsd cannot export mounted file systems (i.e. you have / and /user, export
> > /, mount that on the client, and expect access to /usr to work right).
> >
> > That's a showstopper for quite a few people, unfortunately. :-(
>
> Did you mean "(i.e. you have / and /usr,"?
>
> This is not what I would call a show stopper. All you need to do is
> use a `smarter' mount program. You user `showmount' to find the
> export points and mount all of exports under the main mount point.

This is the default behaviour of most (if not all) Unix NFS server
demons. Calling it a showstopper seems a bit over the top. Writing
new mount tables is not hard work. The autmounter (autofs) is also
nice help when mounting things.

Nicolai


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