From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Subject: Re: exportfs nohide option for nfsv4
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 11:00:07 -0500
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To: mehta kiran <kiranmehta1981@yahoo.com>
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On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 07:43:33AM -0800, mehta kiran wrote:
> 1. Normally,  if  a  server
> 2. exports  two filesystems one of which is mounted 3.
> on the other, then the client will have to mount  
> 4. both filesystems  explicitly  to get access to
> 5. them.  If it just mounts the parent, it  will  see 
> 6. an  empty directory  at  the place where the other
> 7. filesystem is mounted.  That filesystem is 
> 8. hidden".
> 9. Setting the nohide option on a filesystem causes
> 10.it not  to  be hidden.
> 
> from lines 5-10 i understand that if client mounts
> only parent directory , child directory is hidden
> to client.To make this accessbile to client , exportfs
> should use nohide option , but in
> my example i have explicitly exported child 
> directory.

Note the first sentence: "if a server exports two filesystems
one of which is mounted on the other..."

So the man page is dealing with exactly you case--when you
have explicitly exported both the parent and the child.  I'm
not sure how the man page could be made clearer.

--b.


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