>
> You misunderstood me. The problem you have is the fact that NFS exports
> are usually limited to the physical mount point of the filesystem being
> exported. Thus it thinks that /var above is the same as /, or that
> /var/tmp is the same as /var if both happen to be in the same partition.
> Mount gets confused by that when you specify what it believes to be the
> same partition several times in the exports list.
>
> You can use the '-alldirs' flag in the exports list to export a partition
> and allow any subdirectory within that partition to be mounted instead of
> the partition itself. There may be a way to export several specific
> subdirectories in the same partition but I'm not sure.
>
> I was talking about things like:
>
> mount apollo:/usr m1
> mount apollo:/usr m2
> mount apollo:/usr m3
> mount apollo:/usr m3
> mount apollo:/usr m3
>
> I can import a filesystem as many times as I want, and even overlay mount
> points.
>
Yeah, I know about -alldirs... The problem was that we had customers who
wanted us to export their home directories, and unless I gave them their own
filesystem, I couldn't restrict it in the manner i wanted. :)
Just checking to see that I wasn't missing a way to do this. :)
Kevin
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