Re: strange behaviour with p9fs vs zfs

Mark Johnston:
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 10:54:18AM +0100, Lexi Winter wrote:
> > this turned out to be [0] (thanks, Mark).  for now it seems like p9fs
> > won't work in this sort of configuration, so i'll go back to NFS
> > instead.
 
> You can still export each host filesystem mountpoint as a separate
> share, and mount them in the client.
 
i could, but this is a massive pain: for example every time i add a new
website in /export/www/www.example.org i'd need to another another p9fs
mount, reboot the vm, edit the vm's /etc/fstab, etc.

> I thought NFS has the same limitation?

not since NFSv4, which can traverse descendent mountpoints
transparently.