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! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
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