On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 03:24:50 +0100 Dennis Jacobfeuerborn <d.jacobfeuerborn@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > I have a storage system that is exporting many directories to multiple > clients resulting in a lot of mountpoints (156) on each client. What I'm > trying to do is to create a single directory on the server and then use > mount --bind to mount all the different directories (which are stored on > different LVM volumes) into this single export directory and finally export > this directory to the clients. > Now the exports man-page mentions the crossmnt option but it also mentions > that it cannot be used if I want to export the directory to multiple > clients. Is there another way to accomplish something like this? > Just export the top directory with 'crossmnt' - it should work fine. The 'multiple clients' thing only affects 'nohide' and I think it only affected it back in 2.4 days. Lots changed with 2.6, but maybe not enough of the man page changed :-( So try with 'crossmnt' and if it doesn't work, then come back with details. NeilBrown -- 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
