This one time, at band camp, Aaron Isotton said: > Hi, > > I want to export the whole file system of "zarathustra" via NFS to > "osiris". What I am currently doing is this: > > aisotton@zarathustra:~$ cat /etc/exports > # /etc/exports: the access control list for filesystems which may be exported > # to NFS clients. See exports(5). > / osiris(ro,sync) > aisotton@zarathustra:~$ > > The problem is that when I mount / on osiris, it will not mount the > file systems which are mounted into / on zarathustra (for example > /usr, /var, /boot and so on). Of course I can do something like this > on zarathustra: > > / osiris(ro, sync) > /usr osiris(ro, sync) > /var osiris(ro, sync) > /boot osiris(ro, sync) > ... > > and then mount all of them by hand on osiris, but I'd like osiris not > to know about the file systems of the other machines. What I want is > to specify all the file systems which should be mounted by osiris in > the individual /etc/exports, WITHOUT osiris knowing anything about > that. > > Can that be done? How?
Check out the 'hide' and 'nohide' options. man exports for details. Known to not work in all situations, but it's a start. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | War doesn't prove who's right, just | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | who's left. | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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