On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 01:29:30AM -0400, Nathan J. Williams wrote:

> > There are countless situations where it is necessary to export more
> > than one directory, but not appropriate to export the whole file
> > system. This is a reasonable fundamental requirement of an NFS server,
> > and the fact it isn't possible seems rather bizarre.
> 
> Well, it seems like a fine requirement, but it pretty well flies in
> the face of how NFS was designed and implemented. It's a thin veneer
> of abstraction above the traditional FFS, and dealing with access
> restrictions on a finer grain than per-filesystem is beyond it.
> 
> Any Unix vendor who claims otherwise about their NFS implementation is
> misrepresenting themselves.

Are you sure? Am I missing something?

I've been doing NFS on Solaris for years and have been able to use
different options per export for as long as I remember.

I would have considered it also to be broken, had it not allowed such
configurations to work.

g.