Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 05:47:29 -0600
From: Kurt Fitzner <kfitzner@excelcia.org>
Subject: Re: NFS exporting imports?
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Cc: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
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Larry McVoy wrote:
> Long ago I remember that Linux had an unusual feature wherein you could
> export /home and on the NFS server you could import something and it 
> would be exported.  It was different than other NFS servers and this was
> so long ago it may very well have been the user level NFS server code that
> did this (in fact, I'll bet it was, it makes sense).

You are talking about re-exporting a filesystem?  This is doable with 
any v3 server/client using the "nohide" option in /etc/exports.  You 
have to explicitely export all filesystem mount points that you import, 
but once you do, you can transparently switch between them on a client 
with a single mount.
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