From owner-freebsd-stable Sun May 9 12:52:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from crydee.sai.msu.ru (crydee.sai.msu.ru [195.208.220.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C38B1538A for ; Sun, 9 May 1999 12:52:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asv1@crydee.sai.msu.ru) Received: from localhost (asv1@localhost) by crydee.sai.msu.ru (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id WAA01205; Sun, 9 May 1999 22:54:44 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from asv1@crydee.sai.msu.ru) Date: Sun, 9 May 1999 22:54:44 +0400 (MSD) From: "Sergey Ayukov (mailing lists)" To: John Baldwin Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NFS question.. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 9 May 1999, John Baldwin wrote: > > (lab and friends are netgroups; this BSD feature I quite like). At least > > one problem with NFS seems to go away... Thank you very much, John! > > Glad that it worked. Also, according to the exports(5) manpage, the -alldirs > flag would have exported all of /var, which is not what you wanted: > > "...the -alldirs flag; this form allows the host(s) to mount > at any point within the filesystem..." I wanted all directories under /var/spool/pcnfs ;-) and thought -alldirs would do exactly that if I write /var/spool/pcnfs -alldirs but it seems that -alldirs wants to export entire local filesystem. > Which is not what you wanted. The best solution might be to (in the > future) make /var/spool/pcnfs it's own partition and then export that > with -alldirs. I looked through the mountd source very briefly but > didn't see why the -alldirs option made a difference. Hmm. Thank you again for help! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Sergey Ayukov Sternberg Astronomical Institute http://www.ayukov.com Moscow, Russia http://crydee.sai.msu.ru/index-asv.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message