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SubjectRe: knfsd and submounts
Dominik Kubla wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jun 25, 1999 at 11:02:50AM +0200, Thomas Pornin wrote:
> ...
> >
> > This might be a bit tedious when nfs-exporting the contents of a big ftp
> > server, spread over many partitions/disks. Would it be difficult to patch
> > the kernel so that submounts are transparently exported as well ?
> >
> ...
>
> Not necessary, just enable "Emulate SUN NFS server" during kernel
> compile....
>

It doesn't work very well. I've got both my Linux boxes compiled that
way, and it's never worked. Between my two Linux boxes, both with
2.2.10, I can only mount from WS to masq. Masq to WS mounts always tell
me "Permission denied...", with the WS logs telling me:
Jun 25 07:51:56 reliant mountd[460]: getfh failed: Operation not
permitted

When I go from FBSD to Linux, everything works perfectly, except for the
filesystem thing--only what's n the physical partition gets mounted.

Frankly, Linux NFS leaves much to be desired, and needs to be either
rewritten or changed. Tell me again, *why* did we go to much
vaunted-yet not working consistently knfsd?

I'm *really* working hard on my C programming, but it'll be a while
before I could write/rewrite an NFS daemon, so about all I can do is
point out the foibles and follies...

in my .config I have:

#
# Network File Systems
#
# CONFIG_CODA_FS is not set
CONFIG_NFS_FS=y
CONFIG_NFSD=y
CONFIG_NFSD_SUN=y
CONFIG_SUNRPC=y
CONFIG_LOCKD=y
CONFIG_SMB_FS=y
# CONFIG_NCP_FS is not set

Linux nfs is definitely an area that needs much work, and hopefully
those who can are going fast and furious to make it a decent filesystem.
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