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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!hobyah.cc.uq.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!news.uoregon.edu!news.corpcomm.net!news.pe.net!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!informatik.uni-bremen.de!nordwest.pop.de!uniol!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: NFS Question Date: 4 Apr 1996 23:12:15 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4k1l0f$krb@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <DoLzt4.Cu1@ritz.mordor.com> <315194A5.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> <4jpjl4$dq@anorak.coverform.lan> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) writes: > Is there any reason that NFS doesn't allow more than one directory export > from a given physical partition ? The export attributes are bundled to the device where the file lives on. Despite of being ``the traditional way'', i think there's also a performance issue: the device where an inode resides is fairly obvious to examine, the path to that inode not (and there might even be mult- iple links -- what if their export attributes are contradictionary?) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)