Luke Scharf wrote:
[0] The only exception is that the kernel NFS server module can't hop
from one filesystem to another, so if /export and /export/home are two
different partitions, then if you mount /export on a remote-client
machine, /export/home appears to be empty.
and just to bore you all further...
it's not that the server can't hop from one fs to another: it can, and
it does, and you can see that in that the server actually presents both
/export and /export/home in the pseudo-fs "namespace" it presents to
clients.
The reason that /export/home appears empty is because the client refuses
to traverse further once it notices that it has strayed into a different
server filesystem. This is to preserve expected semantics, e.g. to
guarantee file-id uniqueness per-filesystem.
The correct client action, when it detects a server filesystem boundary,
is to automatically mount - i.e. mirror-mount - the new server
filesystem, e.g. /export/home in your example, at the corresponding
place in the client directory hierarchy.
cheers,
c.
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