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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.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!howland.erols.net!EU.net!news2.EUnet.fr!newsbr.eunet.fr!usenet From: fgm@osinet.fr (Frederic G. MARAND) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: export a file Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 21:56:19 GMT Organization: Groupe SEDI / Agorus SA / OSI SARL / Lines: 20 Message-ID: <52piul$14h@newsbr.eunet.fr> References: <5265vc$ich@charm.il.ft.hse.nl> <3246D7C6.59E2B600@freebsd.org> <52ju9e$8s@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.107.196.155 X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) wrote: >"Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> wrote: >> > I'd like to export a file with NFS instead of a directory. This >> >> You can't do that. >You can do that :), but not with FreeBSD 2.1.0. The -r option to >mountd allows for this, it appeared in 2.2-current on 1995/06/27. It >is also available in FreeBSD 2.1.5. So this might be a good reason >for Edwin to upgrade. Actually, you can't both do that AND comply with the NFS V1 or V2 specification. What it implies is that the behaviour of your clients will have to be checked: clients start NFS access by using MOUNT protocol, and mount clients need to be able to handle that special case, and just about anywhere I saw NFS clients/servers, the mount clients and servers were the least stable portions of NFS code.