NFS export with space in directory name

Andrey Simonenko simon at comsys.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua
Thu Nov 8 14:28:24 UTC 2012


On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 07:10:02PM -0500, Rick Macklem wrote:
> Mickael Canevet wrote:
> > 
> > So I'd like to know if there is a way to export a directory with a
> > space in
> > its name on FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE ?
> > 
> Running mountd-> Nope.
> 
> I am not sure if nfse can support this? (It can be found on sourceforge.net
> and I've cc'd Andrey, since he'll know the answer.)

Such support exists in nfs.exports(5) (nfse native mode), a pathname can be
enclosed in double quotes or any character can be represented by three octal
digits of its ASCII code.  Such support will not work in "nfse -C", since
exports(5) does not support this.


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