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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.radio.cz!newsbastard.radio.cz!news.radio.cz!CESspool!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!newsfeed.nacamar.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: mountd question Date: 23 Apr 1997 21:57:56 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 21 Message-ID: <5jm0l4$4bf@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <alberjo-1404971525390001@exit.earlham.edu> 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 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39624 alberjo@earlham.edu (Joshua Albertson) wrote: > ex of /etc/exports > > /usr/export -alldirs somehost > > > If I remove the -alldirs mountd -r will start without complaining Sure. -alldirs must be applied to the entire physical filesystem, probably /usr in your case. Most NFS servers handle attributes on a per-filesystem basis (presumably to speedup the decision), thus you can only specify them once per filesystem. The only exception i know of is the Linux NFS server since it's a userland implementation. -- 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. ;-)