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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.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: Is there a way to export an NFS filesystem? Date: 9 Dec 1995 18:44:39 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4aclen$8v@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <49tr39$6c6@news.csie.nctu.edu.tw> <4a2imr$o8c@heathers.stdio.com> <4a8b5v$otl@news.csie.nctu.edu.tw> 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 blhsing@csie.nctu.edu.tw (Ben-Lih Hsing) writes: > Well, besides to let others to mount my system, another reason why I wish to > have my NFS re-exported is to have a loopback filsystem, which I used to have > it on Linux via NFS... It would be great if FreeBSD supports loopback > filesystem like SunOS anyway. And say... why do I see this in the man page > of mount(8): > > SEE ALSO > mount(2), vfsload(3), fstab(5), mount_cd9660(8), mount_fdesc(8), > mount_kernfs(8), mount_lfs(8), mount_lofs(8), mount_mfs(8), > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This seems to be left behind when 4.4*Lite* was created. Supposedly there's the `null' file system serving the same purpose, but it's not working stable right now. (Seems that you can use i