Messages in this thread | | | From | Neil Brown <> | Date | Wed, 7 Aug 2002 21:18:23 +1000 | Subject | Re: Problems with NFS exports |
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On Wednesday August 7, fw@deneb.enyo.de wrote: > Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> writes: > > > Probably better documentation in exports.5 would be just as useful. > > Maybe. > > BTW, is it possible to export a directory tree under a different path, > using the kernel NFS daemon?
Uhm... symlinks work. Which is to say, the client can mount using a 'different path', though they can also mount using the 'true' path.
> > > And "BUSY" probably isn't correct .... > > Why not? The ressource (the directory tree) is already being used, and > therefore the export fails.
I guess... I just feel it isn't really clear what it is that is 'busy'.
NeilBrown
> > > It would be possible to dis-ambiguate the ambiguity but it wouldn't be > > very clean, and I really am not sure that it is worth the effort. > > Better error messages are always a good idea. :-)
Can't disagree there.
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