With NFS4's support for referrals and Kerberos, it seems like the original reasons to prevent re-exporting of an NFS share might no longer exist. With fs-proxy making its way into the mainline kernel and things like cachefilesd, there are also very good reasons to allow it. A proxy server with a persistent cache could give the ability to robustly use shares across a WAN or do failover pairs with no need for more complex replication. Speaking as an end-user, this would be very desirable. I see that others have implemented proxies with user-space NFS, which seems reasonable but not optimal. What is the obstacle to allowing re-exports with the standard nfs implentation? Is it possible at the moment to patch a kernel to make this work? Anyone have experience with it? Any input is appreciated. -- 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
