From: "Igor Rychkov" Subject: RE: re-exporting: exportfs gives Invalid argument Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 13:13:03 +0900 Sender: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: References: <5CA6F03EF05E0046AC5594562398B9160C775E@poexmb3.conoco.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Return-path: Received: from radish.scphys.kyoto-u.ac.jp ([130.54.54.131]) by usw-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 187T65-00085x-00 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 20:07:49 -0800 Received: from tarte (srv01.scphys.kyoto-u.ac.jp [130.54.55.203]) by radish.scphys.kyoto-u.ac.jp (8.9.3/3.7Wpl2-00022500) with SMTP id MAA17608 for ; Fri, 1 Nov 2002 12:58:52 +0900 To: In-Reply-To: <5CA6F03EF05E0046AC5594562398B9160C775E@poexmb3.conoco.net> Errors-To: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Yes, it appears so. But then, what is that "nohide" option about? I suspect now that nohide is for _local_ filesystems. So, how do people solve problems like mine? Igor > > > Re-exporting is not allowed/supported on the kernel nfsd in > linux. Most other versions on Unix also don't support this > sort of thing. > > Roger > > > From: "Igor Rychkov" > To: > Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 20:17:11 +0900 > Subject: [NFS] re-exporting: exportfs gives Invalid argument > > Hi, > I have the following situation: "A" client of network "N" needs file = > access to the "C" server of network "M", and there's "B" with 2 network = > cards. The computers have RedHat 7.2 or 7.3 installed. > > B mounts Cshare on /Bshare/Cshare > > B's /etc/exports includes the following lines: > > /Bshare A(rw,async,no_subtree_check,no_root_squash) > /Bshare/Cshare A(rw,nohide,async,no_subtree_check,no_root_squash) > > then=20 > B:# exportfs -ra > gives > A.N:/Bshare/Cshare: Invalid argument > > Now I remember that one cannot "export a directory and an ancestor of = > that directory on the same filesystem to any one host". Yes, = > /Bshare/Cshare was created as a subdirectory, but wasn't it replaced = > when mounting? And isn't the manual requires extra lines in /etc/exports = > to "nohide" such mounts? > > Any hint, please. > Igor > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Influence the future of Java(TM) technology. Join the Java Community Process(SM) (JCP(SM)) program now. http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?sunm0004en _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs