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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!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: export a file Date: 5 Oct 1996 15:12:55 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 33 Message-ID: <535ttn$1gb@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5265vc$ich@charm.il.ft.hse.nl> <3246D7C6.59E2B600@freebsd.org> <52ju9e$8s@uriah.heep.sax.de> <52piul$14h@newsbr.eunet.fr> 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 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E fgm@osinet.fr (Frederic G. MARAND) 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. > Actually, you can't both do that AND comply with the NFS V1 or V2 That's why it is an option to mountd. > 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. What do you wanna tell me here? I cannot make much sense out of it. Did you read the beginning of the thread at all? The questions was about booting a Sun diskless. So it's the diskless boot firmware of the Sun that actually performs the mount on a plain file (to mount its swap space), and there's not much chance to change this behaviour. Hence it was easier to provide mountd(8) with an option to grok mounting a plain file. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)