Re: nfs-utils 1.0.8-rc1

["J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>]

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.


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