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From: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu (Bill Paul)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Is there a way to export an NFS filesystem?
Date: 4 Dec 1995 20:57:17 GMT
Organization: Columbia University Center for Telecommunications Research
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Daring to challenge the will of the almighty Leviam00se, Ben-Lih Hsing
(blhsing@csie.nctu.edu.tw) had the courage to say:

: In Linux, we have the option '-r' for rpc.nfsd to re-export an imported NFS
: filesystem.  Is there a way for nfsd in FreeBSD to do the same thing?
: Your help will be greatly appreciated.
: -- 
:  Ben-Lih Hsing (¨·¥»¥ß)  blhsing@ccca.nctu.edu.tw & blhsing@csie.nctu.edu.tw
:   Vice President of Hsinchu High School Alumni Association in NCTU Division
:   Leader of Development Group in Campus Computer Communication Association
:     Sophomore of Department of Computer Science & Information Engineering
:      National Chiao-Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Republic Of China

I believe this is what's known as multi-hop NFS, and it's supposed to be
a Bad Thing (tm). FreeBSD doesn't support it (can't speak unequivocally for
NetBSD, but I'd venture to say it doesn't either). It could probably
be made to support it, but I can't see anyone falling over themselves to
do it any time in the near future.

-Bill

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