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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: NFS Question
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 09:40:53 -0800
Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM
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To: Chris Mauritz <ritz@ritz.mordor.com>

Chris Mauritz wrote:
> 
> I checked the man pages, but I'm having a bit of trouble getting
> this to work:
> 
> Without any other directory under host1:/usr being mounted...Is this
> possible?  I tried playing with the "-access" and "-alldirs" switches
> in the server machine's /etc/exports file with no success.  When

-alldirs is indeed the switch.  Perhaps you're specifying it
incorrectly?  I've tested it here and it works just fine - I'm able to
mount /usr/src from an exported /usr filesystem.
-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project