NFS export problem

[Lowell Gilbert]

albi <albi at scii.nl> writes:

> i might be wrong but afaik you can only export a whole slice
> (==partition) via NFS on FreeBSD

Not exactly; a whole filesystem would be a more precise description.
This is true on all Unix systems, and to the best of my knowledge,
other OS as well.  [The reason is that the NFS transactions are tied
to inodes or file handles, not pathnames.]