On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Ron Stodden wrote:
> Civileme,
>
> On Wed, 01 Dec 1999, I wrote:
>
> "
> > save to nfs mounts works (and I am using knfsd)
>
> I think you will find that it only works if the remote mount point itself is
> exported and connected to. If the remote machine exports /, you connect to
> it, and then try and navigate past /mnt/<anything>, with a partition mounted
> there, knfs , and consequently the local machine, cannot see past the mount
> point.
> "
>
> Let me subtly correct this. The problem probably only occurs when crossing
> the mount point involves a change of file system. For example, you are in
> ext2 and wish to cross over into a mounted vfat file system. knfs lacks the
> ability to load a new file system on the fly (it is on the knfs to-do list).
> My kernel has vfat as a module.
>
> This has been true in all my problem cases. In my case, knfs is in use on
> both machines, and the problem does not occur when the older user-space
> nfs is used. [IMO, Torvalds should be taken out and shot - both for letting
> this out, and for not documenting the critical reduction in the feature set]
A pretty sure he didn't write it (all),and there should be an option for
mount recursion
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