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From: mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: why can't you exportfs /dir and /dir/sub?
Keywords: export exportfs mount NFS subdirectories
Message-ID: <1991Jun18.044122.16327@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
Date: 18 Jun 91 04:41:22 GMT
References: <felps.676828858@convex.convex.com> <159281@pyramid.pyramid.com>
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In article <159281@pyramid.pyramid.com>, amirosh@shakespyr.Pyramid.COM (Alex Miroshnichenko) writes:
> In article <felps.676828858@convex.convex.com>, felps@convex.com (Robert
> Felps) writes:
>> Why can't this be done?

>> EXPORTFS(8)        NFS Programmer's Reference        EXPORTFS(8)
[...]
>>      You cannot export a directory that is either a parent- or a
>>      sub-directory of one that is currently exported and within the
>>      same filesystem.
> exportfs is performed on a filesystem, not on a directory tree.

Well yes, that's the bug.  The question is, why couldn't they fix it?

					der Mouse

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