From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Subject: Re: exportfs nohide option for nfsv4
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 09:58:53 -0500
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To: mehta kiran <kiranmehta1981@yahoo.com>
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On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 04:07:22AM -0800, mehta kiran wrote:
> Hi , 
>         I am using RHEL 4 GA.
>         i created directories /export , /export/exp1.
>         Then i started all the nfs daemons.
>         I mounted a disk on /export/exp1.
> 
>         Then i exported /export using
>         exportfs -o rw,no_root_squash,fsid=0 *:/export
> 
>         I exported /export/exp1 using
>        exportfs -o rw,no_root_squash *:/export/exp1
> 
>       I mounted exported fs on client side using
>       mount -t nfs4 server:/  /share
> 
>       but i am not able to see contents of /share/exp1
>       When i used nohide attribute for exporting fs 
>       then everyting works fine.
> 
>       As per man page , nohide is not needed if  the
>       filesystems mounted on child directories are
>       exported.
>       Please let me know if i ma wrong

Could you point out which part of which manpage you're referring to?

The nohide option *is* (as you've seen) required in this case.  (Well,
either that or "crossmnt" on the parent export.)

--b.


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