Re: recursively share NFS
<tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 01:32:27PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote:
> > debian-user@howorth.org.uk (HE12025-03-20):
> > > It's not a workaround. It's expected behaviour. You told the NAS
> > > to share some of its contents with alexandria. That's what it's
> > > doing. Why would you expect it to respond to a random request
> > > from some other computer?
> >
> > That is not what it is doing. nas would only be replying to
> > alexandria. The only difference is that alexandria is asking on
> > behalf of client and not on its own behalf.
> >
> > > Alternatively, why would you expect alexandria to share
> > > content that doesn't belong to it?
> >
> > There are many scenarios where it is useful, you just have to
> > exercise your imagination.
>
> Agreed.
>
> Besides, we already know NFS can do that (with caveats). I wonder
> whether people read the other postings in the threads they reply
> to :)
I certainly don't always read all the posts in a long thread before
replying. And I stand by what I wrote, although I'd now qualify it by
saying that that's the default position and it can now be overridden.
And I try not to respond with rude responses, although sometimes it is
difficult.
> And, as someone pointed out, ganesha NFS (a user-space server)
> seems to explicitly allow that. Available as a Debian package
> (of course, the NAS will be running something and not letting
> the user change it, violating lots of free software licenses
> in the process, but people keep paying for that, so...)
>
> Cheers
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