Sriram, "sharenfs" is an inherited property. Looks like in your case you set the "sharenfs=on" on datapool/vmwarenfs after the underlying filesystems were created.
If you had set the "sharenfs=on" before creating the underlying filesystems, then the property would have been inherited by the children and hence they would be shared as well. I guess that would help in your case. Hope that helps. Thanks and regards, Sanjeev On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 12:43:26AM +0530, Sriram Narayanan wrote: > An update: > > I'm using VMWare ESX 3.5 and VMWare ESXi 3.5 as the NFS clients. > > I'm use zfs set sharenfs=on datapool/vmwarenfs to make that zfs file > system accessible over NFS. > > -- Sriram > On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 12:07 AM, Sriram Narayanan <sriram...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello: > > > > I have the following zfs structure > > datapool/vmwarenfs - which is available over NFS > > > > I have some ZFS filesystems as follows: > > datapool/vmwarenfs/basicVMImage > > datapool/vmwarenfs/basicvmim...@snapshot > > datapool/vmwarenfs/VMImage01 -> zfs cloned from basicvmim...@snapshot > > datapool/vmwarenfs/VMImage02 -> zfs cloned from basicvmim...@snapshot > > > > These are accessible via NFS as /datapool/vmwarenfs > > with the subfolders VMImage01 and VMImage02 > > > > What's happening right now: > > a. When I connect to datapool/vmwarenfs over NFS, > > - the contents of /datapool/vmwarenfs are visible and usable > > - VMImage01 and VMImage02 are appearing as empty sub-folders at the > > paths /datapool/vmwarenfs/VMImage01 and /datapool/vmwarenfs/VMImage02, > > but their contents are not vbisible. > > > > b. When I explicity share VMImage01 and VMImage02 via NFS, then > > /datapool/vmwarenfs/VMImage01 -> usable as a separate NFS share > > /datapool/vmwarenfs/VMImage02 -> usable as a separate NFS share > > > > What I'd like to have: > > - attach over NFS to /datapool/vmwarenfs > > - view the ZFS filesystems VMImage01 and VMImage02 as sub folders > > under /datapool/vmwarenfs > > > > If needed, I can move VMImage01 and VMImage02 from datapool/vmwarenfs, > > and even re-create them elsewhere. > > > > -- Sriram > > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
