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Date:      Wed, 1 Sep 2010 10:49:20 -0700
From:      David Brodbeck <gull@gull.us>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Mirror mounts not available on FreeBSD? (was: Re: NFSv4 shows all ZFS filesystems as being owned by root)
Message-ID:  <AANLkTi=YE3oOEMH5LH%2BPiemHEJBvJVraruabL79555Sh@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 12:20 PM, David Brodbeck <gull@gull.us> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:52 AM, David Brodbeck <gull@gull.us> wrote:
>> When a ZFS filesystem mountpoint is owned by someone other than root,
>> this is not depicted properly on NFSv4 clients:
>
> After playing around a bit more, it appears the problem is that ZFS
> filesystems under an NFSv4 mountpoint are not auto-mounted by Linux
> clients of a FreeBSD server the way they are when they're clients of
> an OpenSolaris server; if I mount them manually, the ownership is
> correct. =A0I think OpenSolaris calls this functionality "mirror
> mounts." =A0Is there a way to get mirror mounts to work on FreeBSD, or
> is it necessary to mount every sub-filesystem manually?

The answer is I didn't RTFM carefully enough, and forgot to specify
'nfsd_flags=3D"-e"' and 'mountd_flags=3D"-e"' in my /etc/rc.conf.  It's
working now.

Sorry for the unnecessary thread, but hopefully it'll help someone
else searching for the same info in the future.



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