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Date:      Sun, 9 May 1999 22:54:44 +0400 (MSD)
From:      "Sergey Ayukov (mailing lists)" <asv1@crydee.sai.msu.ru>
To:        John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NFS question..
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905092251490.569-100000@crydee.sai.msu.ru>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990509154745.jobaldwi@vt.edu>

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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!

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Dr. Sergey Ayukov                          Sternberg Astronomical Institute
http://www.ayukov.com                                        Moscow, Russia
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