Wojciech Puchar wrote:
other "Solarisisms" that I've already seen, such as /export on FreeBSD which is usually used on Solaris for NFS shares.)does Solaris REQUIRE things to be in /export to be able to export through NFS or is it just some kind of tradition or routinely repeated rule?
It's just a convention. Filesystems to be exported live under /export, and are frequently automounted under /net/{hostname} or /home/{hostname} depending on their intended purpose. You don't have to arrange things like that, just as you don't have to install ports under /usr/local. ie. you'ld have to have a pretty good reason to go against the convention. In fact, given that FreeBSD doesn't seem to have a native convention on how exported filesystems are laid out (no mention in hier(7), no default /etc/exports file), it would make sense to adopt the Solaris/Linux style where feasible. Mount points etc. aren't going to work exactly the same due to Solaris/Linux preferentially using autofs and FreeBSD using amd(8) (yes, I know there has been some progress on autofs under FreeBSD, but it's not 100% yet[*]), but from a user perspective it should all work the same. Cheers, Matthew [*] http://www.fsl.cs.stonybrook.edu/docs/freebsd-autofs/autofs.pdf -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW
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