From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 6 12:18:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA01970 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 6 Feb 1997 12:18:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from david.siemens.de (david.siemens.de [146.254.1.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA01957 for ; Thu, 6 Feb 1997 12:18:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from salomon.mchp.siemens.de (salomon.mchp.siemens.de [139.23.33.13]) by david.siemens.de (8.8.5/8.8.0) with ESMTP id VAA07563 for ; Thu, 6 Feb 1997 21:13:51 +0100 (MET) Received: from curry.mchp.siemens.de (daemon@curry.mchp.siemens.de [146.180.31.23]) by salomon.mchp.siemens.de (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id VAA01014 for ; Thu, 6 Feb 1997 21:18:07 +0100 (MET) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by curry.mchp.siemens.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA12273 for ; Thu, 6 Feb 1997 21:18:05 +0100 (MET) From: Andre Albsmeier Message-Id: <199702062017.VAA06968@server.us.tld> Subject: Re: How to export directory with subdirs In-Reply-To: from Doug White at "Feb 6, 97 11:27:35 am" To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 21:17:53 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > I have to specify the root of the filesystem. > > So I would have to use > > > > /var -alldirs > > > > which is NOT what I want. The PCs should not be able to mount > > the whole /var FS. > > Well, you could make /var/spool/pcnfs it's own filesystem. that would > work, but may not be practical depending on your disks. > > Hm... Yes, but repartitioning is a lot of work. And doing this everytime when a similar situation occurs is very time consuming. So I will continue going to use my patched mountd. My intention was only to find out if I have overlooked something with /etc/exports or to find out why FreeBSD's mountd behaves like that... Thanks anyway -Andre