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Date:      Fri, 31 Aug 2012 07:59:23 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca>
To:        Andrey Simonenko <simon@comsys.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, rmacklem@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Why vfs_stdcheckexp is a VFS operation?
Message-ID:  <42823120.1362161.1346414363645.JavaMail.root@erie.cs.uoguelph.ca>
In-Reply-To: <20120831110151.GA21041@pm513-1.comsys.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua>

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Andrey Simonenko wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 08:59:11AM -0400, Rick Macklem wrote:
> >
> > It seems that changing the semantics of /etc/exports is very
> > difficult
> > (it's a stumbling block w.r.t. adoption of nfse, as an example) at
> > this
> > time so, although confusing, exporting a directory that is not a
> > mount
> > point results in the entire mount point exported for NFS RPCs, but a
> > restriction of only mounting that directory is enforced for the
> > Mount
> > protocol (only done at mount time and only for NFSv3).
> >
> 
> Which information is the statement about semantics of exports(5) and
> nfse is based on?

I was just going on what you have posted. You always seem to say that
certain buggy cases for how mountd interprets /etc/exports is handled
differently for nfse, but I may have misunderstood.

rick



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