export /cdrom without mounting?

[Josh Paetzel]

On Monday 03 December 2007 10:51:33 am reed at reedmedia.net wrote:
> The handbook at
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-nfs.html
> shows exporting /cdrom.
>
> The exports(5) man page seems to indicate a similar exports(5) entry will
> fail since /cdom is not mounted. And if the -alldirs option is not used it
> would just export the empty /cdrom directory (empty because not mounted).
>
> So should the handbook say that /cdrom should be mounted first?
>
> (Usually /cdrom mounted point is listed in /etc/fstab with "noauto".)

Needing the filesystem mounted that you are trying to share seems sort of 
intuitive to me.  The handbook doesn't say that /home has to be mounted 
either....

-- 
Thanks,

Josh Paetzel

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