On 12/03/2011 06:21 AM, Harald Dunkel wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi folks, > > several NFSv4-HOWTOs in the net require to export a root directory > with fsid=0 first. Other exported directory trees should be nested > within this root directory and exported with nohide. AFAIU the advan- > tage of the root dir is that the client can mount "server:/somedir" > instead of "server:/remote_mount_point/somedir". > > Question: Is the common root directory optional? Since NFSv3 doesn't > support this name space feature, wouldn't it be more wise to omit > the root directory? No, the fsid=0 export option is no longer necessary to make v4 exports compatible with v2/v3 exports. When the fsid option is not set, the default root is define as "/" which allows the v4 clients to mount the same exports as does the v2/v3 clients. Now if you do not what "/" as your default root, you can set fsid to something like fsid=/export. This will change to default root to the /export directory which means your v4 clients will only be able to access exports under the /export directory. I believe the Linux server is the only server to have this option... steved. > > > Any helpful comment would be highly appreciated > > Harri > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAk7aBlAACgkQUTlbRTxpHjeO0wCggdEdfcBzswibHAOG6w2xJa5r > B4QAn3MsYZR7xCh60c1X4AsNLnutXSPI > =nEBr > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > -- > 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 -- 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
