Date: Sun, 1 Aug 1999 23:08:16 -0500 (CDT) From: Kevin Day <toasty@dragondata.com> To: dillon@apollo.backplane.com (Matthew Dillon) Cc: toasty@dragondata.com (Kevin Day), blapp@attic.ch (Martin Blapp), freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mountpoint locking with fbsd-nfs Message-ID: <199908020408.XAA76817@celery.dragondata.com> In-Reply-To: <199908020357.UAA07543@apollo.backplane.com> from "Matthew Dillon" at Aug 01, 1999 08:57:30 PM
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> > You misunderstood me. The problem you have is the fact that NFS exports > are usually limited to the physical mount point of the filesystem being > exported. Thus it thinks that /var above is the same as /, or that > /var/tmp is the same as /var if both happen to be in the same partition. > Mount gets confused by that when you specify what it believes to be the > same partition several times in the exports list. > > You can use the '-alldirs' flag in the exports list to export a partition > and allow any subdirectory within that partition to be mounted instead of > the partition itself. There may be a way to export several specific > subdirectories in the same partition but I'm not sure. > > I was talking about things like: > > mount apollo:/usr m1 > mount apollo:/usr m2 > mount apollo:/usr m3 > mount apollo:/usr m3 > mount apollo:/usr m3 > > I can import a filesystem as many times as I want, and even overlay mount > points. > Yeah, I know about -alldirs... The problem was that we had customers who wanted us to export their home directories, and unless I gave them their own filesystem, I couldn't restrict it in the manner i wanted. :) Just checking to see that I wasn't missing a way to do this. :) Kevin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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