Re: aggregate NFS export

On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 21:49:13 +0100 M?ns Rullg?rd <mans@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| phil-news-nospam@xxxxxxxx writes:
|
|> Is there any way in Linux to create an NFS export that appears to clients
|> as a single export, but contains more than one actual filesystem (export
|> a directory and other filesystems are mounted on subdirectories and are
|> seen in the export)? How about if those filesystems are mounted _after_
|> an NFS client has mounted this? An ordinary userspace file server (e.g.
|> FTP server, web server, RSYNC server) can see mounts on subdirectories
|> that happen even after they start running. Maybe some userland form of
|> NFS daemon?
|
| It sounds like you're looking for the 'nohide' export option. Be sure
| to read the warnings in the man page though.

That could possibly be. If the export is mounted by a client first and the
subdirectory mounted on after the fact, will it be seen by the client at
that time? I'll have to test this out and see.

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