Russ Weeks wrote: > On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Nicolas > Williams<Nicolas.Williams at sun.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 03:58:59PM -0400, Gordon Ross wrote: > >> Dare I ask: Do we _really_ want FUSE trying to support export? > > > > It would let you do insane things, including setup infinite loops (and > > since the loop could be over several systems, it might not be possible > > to detect). So it'd be bad. > > Isn't this already an issue? I could've sworn that when I was looking > through the NFS export code, there was something that allowed > re-exporting remote shares. Something to do with allowing diskless > clients to share part of their filesystem. But going back through the > code, I can't find it, and it sounds very similar to the non-existent > feature Roland was talking about,
I was talking about the re-export feature of the Linux userland nfsd (AFAIK the kernel nfsd no longer allows this (which leads to complains every half year in the Linux admin lists (and is the reason why the userland nfsd is still part of some Linux distributions))) ... ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz at nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 3992797 (;O/ \/ \O;)
