Re: mount a mounted filesystem
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 12:50:31AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> I'm not familiar with NFS, but believe that an export will not traverse
> filesystems. If you think about it, this is a good thing.
You are correct and it is absolutely a Good Thing for reasons other than the
situation you brought up. If an NFS-mounted filesystem could be reexported,
the original server (where the fs physically resides) would lose the ability
to restrict which clients could mount it.
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