Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: NFS 2.2beta40 (fwd) | From | Nicolai Langfeldt <> | Date | 16 Feb 1999 13:19:55 +0100 |
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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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