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Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 23:54:46 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
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Subject: Re: recursive exports && linux nfs
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Hi!

> I am trying to export the whole filesystem hierarchy on one of my servers
> (this includes /fs, which is an automounted directory using autofs).
> 
> Now I have two problems:
> 
> 1) exporting: exportfs does not really exports filesystems that are
>    not present when exportfs is being called (some of my filesystems
>    are only available temporarily). Also, exportfs of course forces the mount
>    of all filesystems that are mountable, which can take considerable time.
> 
> 2) using: I can do cd /nfs/fs, but the directoy is always empty, and when I
>    try to step into a subdirectory I always get "No such file or directory".
> 
> I am using linux-2.2.18, nfsv3 + nfs-utils-0.2.1.
> 
> Thanks a lot for any insights, even if this means "this is not supported"
> ;)

This can't be supported, afaict, because nfs handles have limited
size.

								Pavel
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