On May 21, 2008, at 1:43 PM, Will Murnane wrote: > I'm looking at implementing home directories on ZFS. This will be > about 400 users, each with a quota. The ZFS way of doing this AIUI is > create one filesystem per user, assign them a quota and/or > reservation, and set sharenfs=on. So I tried it: > # zfs create local-space/test > # zfs set sharenfs=on local-space/test > # zfs create local-space/test/foo > # zfs create local-space/test/foo/bar > # share > - /export/local-space/test rw "" > - /export/local-space/test/foo rw "" > - /export/local-space/test/foo/bar rw "" > All good so far. Now, I understand that with nfs in general, the > child filesystems will not be mounted, and I do see this behavior on > Linux. If I specify nfs4, the children are mounted as I expected: > # mount -t nfs4 server:/export/local-space/test /mnt/ > # cd /mnt/ > # ls > foo > # ls foo > bar > Okay, all is well. Try the same thing on a Solaris client, though, > and it doesn't work: > # mount -o vers=4 ds3:/export/local-space/test /mnt/ > # cd mnt > # ls > foo > # ls foo > <nothing>
This behavior was a recent addition to the Solaris client and therefore are seeing this lack of functionality. Any recent Solaris Express or OpenSolaris install will have the functionality you desire. Spencer
