On 25 Sep 2001, Nathan J. Williams wrote:

: 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.

Then what do you have to say about Solaris?

You may know more than I about the internal implementation of NFS on Solaris 2,
but *ignoring* the prospect of packet sniffers for a moment, Solaris does
indeed provide for differing hosts and options per exported tree, not per
host mountpoint.

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