Why vfs_stdcheckexp is a VFS operation?

Rick Macklem rmacklem at uoguelph.ca
Fri Aug 31 11:59:25 UTC 2012


Andrey Simonenko wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 08:59:11AM -0400, Rick Macklem wrote:
> >
> > It seems that changing the semantics of /etc/exports is very
> > difficult
> > (it's a stumbling block w.r.t. adoption of nfse, as an example) at
> > this
> > time so, although confusing, exporting a directory that is not a
> > mount
> > point results in the entire mount point exported for NFS RPCs, but a
> > restriction of only mounting that directory is enforced for the
> > Mount
> > protocol (only done at mount time and only for NFSv3).
> >
> 
> Which information is the statement about semantics of exports(5) and
> nfse is based on?

I was just going on what you have posted. You always seem to say that
certain buggy cases for how mountd interprets /etc/exports is handled
differently for nfse, but I may have misunderstood.

rick


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