Re: Problems with NFS exports

From: Neil Brown (neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au)
Date: Wed Aug 07 2002 - 06:18:23 EST


On Wednesday August 7, fw@deneb.enyo.de wrote:
> Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> writes:
>
> > Probably better documentation in exports.5 would be just as useful.
>
> Maybe.
>
> BTW, is it possible to export a directory tree under a different path,
> using the kernel NFS daemon?

Uhm... symlinks work.
Which is to say, the client can mount using a 'different path', though
they can also mount using the 'true' path.

>
> > And "BUSY" probably isn't correct ....
>
> Why not? The ressource (the directory tree) is already being used, and
> therefore the export fails.

I guess... I just feel it isn't really clear what it is that is
'busy'.

NeilBrown

>
> > It would be possible to dis-ambiguate the ambiguity but it wouldn't be
> > very clean, and I really am not sure that it is worth the effort.
>
> Better error messages are always a good idea. :-)

Can't disagree there.

NeilBrown
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