From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Mar 14 16:20:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from edgemaster.zombie.org (edgemaster.creighton.edu [147.134.107.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 938C437B71A for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 16:20:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from smkelly@zombie.org) Received: by edgemaster.zombie.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 03C389915; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 18:20:34 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 18:20:33 -0600 From: Sean Kelly To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: mountd Message-ID: <20010314182033.A54552@edgemaster.zombie.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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/ 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? -- Sean Kelly | PGP KeyID: 77042C7B smkelly@zombie.org | http://www.zombie.org For PGP key, send e-mail with subject "send pgp key" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message