On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 10:10:55PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> >>>>> "H" == H Peter Anvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > .. but has the same problems as direct mounts (effectively, a
> > sub-automount *is* a direct mount.)
>
> Really ?
> What if you restrict yourself to cases where the exported areas can
> not be nested (i.e. as is the case with Linux's knsfd but not unfsd) ?
> Then you can have:
>
> /net indirect automount mount point
> /net/hostA indirect automount mount point
> /net/hostA/mount indirect automount mount point
> /net/hostA/mount/point2 NFS mount
Yes, but that's a pretty special case. If your server exports
/dir1 to /dir100 then you can do this, but if it exports
/ as well as /dir1-100 you need direct mounts. Both knfsd
and unfsd can do this; knfsd's limitation is no nested
exports on one filesystem.
J
