From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "J. Bruce Fields" Subject: Re: exportfs: Warning: /adir does not support NFS export. Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:07:47 -0500 Message-ID: <20091110180747.GA15000@fieldses.org> References: <4AF99861.7030103@aimvalley.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org To: Norbert van Bolhuis Return-path: Received: from fieldses.org ([174.143.236.118]:50716 "EHLO fieldses.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756071AbZKJSHc (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:07:32 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4AF99861.7030103-bYiImlzuGf1HoQZOM9yvow@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 05:44:17PM +0100, Norbert van Bolhuis wrote: > > I get the following exportfs 1.2.0 warning: > > exportfs: Warning: /adir does not support NFS export. > > Although everything works fine, I'm worried about this. > > The directoy "/adir" is the path to a ISOZFS loop mounted image. What's ISOZFS? > The ISO(Z)FS image itself resides on a UBIFS filesystem (/flashfs/isozfs_image.iso). > The root dir ("/"), as well as "/adir" and "/flashfs" is initramfs. > > So afaik I'm exporting a ISOFS, this is supported by nfsd (in the kernel), so > why is the warning there ? > > I know UBIFS doesn't support to be (nfsd) exported by the kernel, > but ISO(Z)FS and initramfs do, right ? > > Am I doing something illegal ? Which distribution are you using? Is it something that worked before, and stopped working, or is this the first time you've tried it? --b.