Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 18:20:33 -0600 From: Sean Kelly <smkelly@zombie.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: mountd Message-ID: <20010314182033.A54552@edgemaster.zombie.org>
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After reading the manpage and list archives, I've come to (what I believe)
to be the truth in that what I am trying to do with NFS is not possible
with the current implimentation of mountd.
My NFS server has /usr on a single filesystem, yet I would like to share
subdirectories of /usr with different attributes. An example would be:
/usr/ports readonly
/usr/src readonly
/usr/local/build read/write
The idea is that machines with very little disk space will be able to build
ports and source using /usr/build/<hostname> as the workdir. As I
understand it, this can't be done since /usr is a single filesystem on the
server and must
a) be listed on single line in /etc/exports
b) have the same attributes for all exported directories
Am I missing something? If not, why is FreeBSD's mountd implimented this
way when it causes severe limitations such as the one I just came across?
How hard would it be to reimpliment the system? Does anybody have any
suggestions for a quickfix? What is the answer to life, the universe, and
everything?
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