Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 12:56:03 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, jdli@FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw Subject: Re: Re-Export NFS-partition ?! Message-ID: <199603271956.MAA01774@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199603270707.IAA19125@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Mar 27, 96 08:07:39 am
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> (While it's not very difficult in theory to NFS-reexport a file system > -- Linux can do it --, most of us believe that it would violate the > original idea of an NFS export list maintained at the server. Alas, > Sun was never very good in considering security issues.) It violates some protocol guarantees because of interactions between twostages of client caching (which is only moderately safe anyway, and only works because there aren't things like NFS reeporting going on to *really* screw up coherency). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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