On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 18:42 -0400, Chuck Lever wrote: > Peter Staubach wrote: > > It seems unfortunate that the convention couldn't have been to > > look for the first instance of ":/" and break the strings there. > > I wonder if you can ever specify an export path that does not begin with > a '/' -- is that possible when mounting an NFS server that exports, say, > an old-fashioned HFS volume? It is quite legal to specify a path that doesn't start with '/': NFSv2/v3 mount servers will, for instance, just implicitly assume it. For that reason, there were user complaints the last time we started requiring the '/' and returning an error when it wasn't supplied. -- Trond Myklebust Linux NFS client maintainer NetApp Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx www.netapp.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
