From: "J. Bruce Fields" Subject: Re: nfs-utils 1.0.8-rc1 Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 13:03:14 -0500 Message-ID: <20060106180314.GF4759@fieldses.org> References: <17314.22172.913247.595571@cse.unsw.edu.au> <1134718387.3699.10.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> <17318.4720.969963.469187@cse.unsw.edu.au> <20060106175813.GE4759@fieldses.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Trond Myklebust , nfs@lists.sourceforge.net Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx1-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.91] helo=mail.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list2.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1Euvvz-0001EW-EB for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Fri, 06 Jan 2006 10:03:27 -0800 Received: from mail.fieldses.org ([66.93.2.214] helo=pickle.fieldses.org) by mail.sourceforge.net with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.44) id 1Euvvw-0003wC-On for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Fri, 06 Jan 2006 10:03:27 -0800 To: Neil Brown In-Reply-To: <20060106175813.GE4759@fieldses.org> Sender: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing. List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 12:58:13PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 12:52:48PM +1100, Neil Brown wrote: > > 75 nor P3 Oth bfields@fieldses.org NEW pseudofilesystem paths are confusing and v3-incompatible > > > > That's a fair comment, but the solution isn't obvious. > > The apparently straight forward approach might be: > > If 'fsid=0' isn't given in /etc/exports, then auto-export > > /var/lib/nfs/pseudo-root > > as fsid=0,ro,... and bind-mount all other exported filesystems > > into a suitable place in there. > > Yes, I've thought about doing something like that. It has the advantage > that we can fix everything in nfs-utils, without needing new kernel > interfaces. Oh, note one other thing--/var/lib/nfs/pseudo-root is on the root filesystem on a lot of systems, and we definitely don't want to silently export bits of the root filesystem.... So we'd need to do a loopback mount or something.--b. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs