Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes: > > > If you look at the implementation of the NFS lookup call in the Hurd > > nfsd (hurd/nfsd/ops.c:op_lookup) you will see that the server uses > > O_NOTRANS to prevent such activation. > > I see. Does this mean it isn't possible to export trees containing > multiple file systems? (The Linux user-space nfsd allows that; the > kernel-space nfsd doesn't.)
The Hurd version does let you export trees containing multiple filesystems; but the multiple-filesystem aspect is only available in the mount protocol. Once a mount has happened, from a given file handle, you cannot get out of the filesystem that that file handle refers to. Thomas
