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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
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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