Re: are multiple FSIDs supported?

Ben DJ
2009-10-23T19:09:40Z

Hi Bruce,

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 12:00 PM, J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org=
> wrote:
>> My goal would be to export, for example
>>
>> =A0/nfs1 & it's subdirs ONLY to LAN box1
>> =A0/nfs2 & it's subdirs ONLY to LAN box2
>> =A0etc
>
> Multiple export namespaces aren't currently supported.
>
> I'd like to some day, though I'd prefer to vary the namespace based o=
n
> server ip address instead of by client ip address.
>
> But for now I'd think just something like:
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0/nfs =A0 =A0*(ro,fsid=3D0,...)
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0/nfs/1 =A0box1(rw,nohide,crossmnt)
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0/nfs/2 =A0box2(rw,nohide,crossmnt)
>
> should server your purposes. =A0box1 will still be able to see that a
> directory named /nfs/2 exists,

There are a few situations where I'm going to have to figure out a way
around this. I.e., where I don't want boxes to even "be able to see"
other boxes' dirs.

> but it shouldn't be able to descend into
> it. =A0(And vice-versa for box2 and /nfs/1.)

Thanks for the suggestion and explanation. I'd seen the crossmnt
option, but didn't understand how it was really different than nohide.

BenDJ