Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 13:12:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: "Sergey Ayukov (mailing lists)" <asv1@crydee.sai.msu.ru> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NFSD limitations? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9905031310460.20321-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905031056420.4069-100000@crydee.sai.msu.ru>
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On Mon, 3 May 1999, Sergey Ayukov (mailing lists) wrote: > > Hello, > > I am migrating my server from Slackware Linux to FreeBSD (decided to try). > Unfortunately, I chose to install 3.1-RELEASE (now I see that 2.2.8 might > be better). I have couple of questions related to NFS server. > > 1) I can't export directories which are not local mount point. E.g., I > have disk mounted on /vol1 and want to export only /vol1/ftp . Is this > possible (if I try to export /vol1/ftp/.1, mountd complains about wrong > mount point)? Even worse, I need to export /var/spool for pcnsfd printing, > but don't want to export entire /var. In my case, /var is on separate > partition. It can be done. Try using the '-alldirs' flag first; this will let you mount /vol1 and any subtree, including /vol1/ftp. > 2) NFS mount does not seem to go through local filesystems. E.g., I have > another disk mounted on /vol1/ftp/.1 and want export of /vol1/ftp to > transparently "bleed" through to /vol1/ftp/.1 ? NFS mounts do not cross mountpoints. You'll have to mount that yourself. > 2) On Linux, I was able to re-export NFS-mounted directories. E.g., in the > above example I mount via NFS /vol1/ftp/pub/zeus from zeus:/sai2 and want > it to be seen via NFS export (/vol1) as well. Is this possible? I don't think so, no. > I thought it might be possible to get it if I bypass kernel NFSD and > install different NFS server, but mountd coredumps if I disable NFS in > kernel on 3.1-RELEASE... No clue there. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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