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From: sysdoc@boingo.med.jhu.edu (The Doctor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NFS export and mounts querry
Message-ID: <1990Mar13.152658.20627@boingo.med.jhu.edu>
Date: 13 Mar 90 15:26:58 GMT
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Reply-To: sysdoc@Boingo (The Doctor)
Organization: The Johns Hopkins Hospital-Body CT Imaging Lab, Baltimore
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> Another thought. Some of our profs here want to have their OD's mounted, then
> exported for all to use. Well, I tried the obvious:
>  
> First mount the OD:
>  
> mount -o rw /dev/od0a /PROFS   (don't get IBM mad, but...)
>  
> Now, since we export "/" to everyone, and /PROFS in part of the same FS,
> then it should be exported to, right? Well, wrong. After we do:
>  
> --Roger Jagoda

No, you must export each file system separately. I.e. /dev/od0a represents
an entire filesystem, that does not implicitly belong to /, it is simply
mounted into /. You must use the command:
	exportfs /PROFS
or put the line
	/PROFS 
into your /etc/exports file and use the command:
	exportfs.

-Derek Ney
sysdoc@boingo.med.jhu.edu