On Tuesday 23 January 2001 18:35, you wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > A nfs doesn't cross physical borders. It's a security issue. You will
> > need to export each physical filesystem separately (you should be able
> > to put it all back together on the remote machine by mounting the two
> > filesystems together as they are on the originating machine.)
>
> Well, if this is true under linux, its new (less than 2 years old, which
> I suppose is not so new, eh?)
>
> I know that's how Solaris works, but linux treats, e.g. '/', as one big
> filesystem WHEN VIEWED UNDER NFS, at least (as I say) a few
> years ago (last time I tried it in other words).
>
> I'll have to go try it again and report back here...
>
> (And I'm not sure I understand why its a security issue)
>
> rc
>
>
It's a package issue. Linux has nfs (really slow) and knfs (quite snappy
since it is _part_ of the kernel). We use knfs which is under heavy
development, and one of its issues is that it will not navigate mount points
through remote /etc/fstab. Another is that Reiserfs development folks aren't
putting out patches for knfs as readily as for nfs; hence, reiserfs is easily
broken when used as a remote mount and a high load write is sent.
Civileme
