From: gKurra <kurrag1@yahoo.com>
Subject: knfsd re-export (source modification)
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 12:31:50 -0700 (PDT)
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hello,

i have some questions on re-exporting nfs mounts.

is there a logical reason why re-exporting is not done
(apart from security considerations)?

i'm considering modifying the knfsd source to remove
the FS_REQUIRES_DEV check, or give an option to
re-export.

is there a logical fallacy to re-exporting? i'm not
concerned about security as this will be between
trusted machines/users.

apart from the FS_REQUIRES_DEV check, i can think of
the following possible changes i'd need to make:

1. i_generation number handling
2. providing a stable device number from, say, the
mountpoint name.

is there anything else i'd need to take care of? what
about inode handling?

thank you for any discussion and answers that come out
of this.

-gk


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