It sounds like the Linux client did not perform a 'mirror' mount, thus you actually see the 'pseudo namespace' directory.
Two options to allow seamless mounting: (a) Use openSolaris clients that support 'mirror mounts' (b) Use automounter to perform the mounts needed. Robert. On Nov 21, 2007, at 2:09 PM, Simon Gao wrote: > Here is one issue I am running into when setting up a new NFS > server to share several zfs file systems. > > I created following zfs file system from a zfs pool called bigpool. > The bigpool is the top level file system and mounted as /export/ > bigpool. > > file system mount point > > bigpool /export/bigpool > bigpool/zfs1 /export/bigpool/zfs1 > bigpool/zfs2 /export/bigpool/zfs2 > > All directories under /export are owned by a group called users. > Also group users have write access to them. > > Next, I exported bigpool (zfs1 and zfs2 inherited from bigpool) as > NFS share. > > zfs set sharenfs=on bigpool > > On a Linux client, I can mounte all shares directly without > problem. If I mounted /export/bigpool to /mnt/nfs_share on the > Linux client. The ownership and permissions > on /mnt/nfs_share match to /export/bigpool on the nfs server. > > However, permissions on /mnt/nfs_share/zfs1 or /mnt/nfs_share/zfs2 > are not inherited correctly. The group ownership is switched to > root on /mnt/nfs_share/zfs1,zfs2 and write permission is removed. I > expect /mnt/nfs_share/zfs1 should match /export/bigpool/zfs1, so > does for zfs2. Why ownership and permissions do not get inherited? > > When I directly mount /export/bigpool/zfs1 to /mnt/nfs_share/zfs1, > then ownership and permissions match again. > > Since with ZFS, creating and using multiple file systems are > recommended practice, does it mean that it will be lots of more > trouble in managing NFS shares on the system? Is there a way to > only export top level file system and let all permissions and > ownership flow down correctly on client side? Or maybe there are > some special settings out there to solve my problem? > > Any help is appreciated. > > Simon > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > nfs-discuss mailing list > nfs-discuss at opensolaris.org -- Robert... "Don't Make Assumptions"
