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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