Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [Question] mount points on knfsd. | Date | Thu, 10 Sep 1998 08:44:24 -0700 | From | "G. Allen Morris III" <> |
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>>>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?
--------------------------------- G. Allen Morris III
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