Re: [Question] mount points on knfsd.
G. Allen Morris III (gam3@dharma.sehda.com)
Thu, 10 Sep 1998 08:44:24 -0700
>>>H. Peter Anvin said:
> Followup to: <199809092155.OAA11304@gam3.sehda.com>
> By author: "G. Allen Morris III" <gam3@dharma.sehda.com>
> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> >
> >
> > I would like some feed back on the best way to solve what I hope
> > is one of the last major problems in the fs/nfsd code in the kernel.
> >
> > The NFS RFC is clear that nfsd should not cross a mount point.
> >
> > A server will not allow a LOOKUP operation to cross a
> > mount-point to the root of a different file-system, even
> > if the file-system is exported.
> >
>
> I seem to fail to understand why the heck that is the business of the
> NFS RFC to have an opinion about. That's part of what namespace the
> server wants to export. The fact that Sun does it brokenly, requiring
> the clients to be aware of details that should be internal to the
> server, is no reason to perpetualize the error, IMNSHO.
What if the `different file-system' is a NFS mount?
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G. Allen Morris III
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