On 11/02/2009 03:02 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 14:23 -0500, Steve Dickson wrote: >> I'm not sure about this... Actually I like the fact we can define a >> pseudo root other than '/'... which means you really want a live exported >> directory with the fsid=0 option... If I am understanding what you are >> saying... > > No, that's not what he's saying. Even if you define a different psuedo > root other than /, it's likely more common to /not/ want that root > exported in whole, but rather smaller parts of it, just like you don't > want / exported in whole, you only want subdirectories exported. Lets add some context to this since I *really* do want to understand what you guys are saying... /export *(ro,fsid=0) /export/home *(rw) With the above exports the only part of the server's real root ('/') that is exposed is the /export directory. So when a client does a 'mount -o v4 server:/ /mnt' The client will only be able to see /mnt/home (or the /export/home export). So as far as exposure, being able to define the root the client will see, I think, is good thing since it will protect (or hide) the rest of server's real root directories... So this is why I'm understanding why the '/export' of the '/export *(ro,fsid=0)' should not be a live export directory? steved. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list