From owner-freebsd-current Sat Dec 15 0:25:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5D4737B41C for ; Sat, 15 Dec 2001 00:25:07 -0800 (PST) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.6/8.11.1) id fBF8P1v27099; Sat, 15 Dec 2001 00:25:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 00:25:01 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Terry Lambert Cc: Ian Dowse , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mountd(8) leaving filesystems exported Message-ID: <20011215002501.B27029@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org References: <200112150034.aa63895@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> <3C1AEB07.5FE66AD7@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3C1AEB07.5FE66AD7@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 10:17:43PM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 10:17:43PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > The problem is that the exported FSs exports are managed in the > per FS mount code, and they really ought to be managed in higher > level code (above the VFS layer, but still in the kernel). > > This is incidently what prevents us from having a SunOS-like And why we cannot export to parallel directories of a file system. This limitation is actually a security concern as one ends up exporting the parent and thus exposes more of the filesystem across the network. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message