On Tue, 23 May 2000, Marek Kozubal wrote:

> When I add to /etc/exports the flag "-alldirs" so that you can mount stuff
> within /home w/o specifically listing everything I get the following
> error in /var/log/messages:
> 
> May 23 21:21:27 portents mountd[230]: "/home -alldirs -network 10.0.0
> -mask 255.255.255.0", line 1: Could not remount /home: Invalid argument
> 
> now if I removed the -alldirs option it works fine but doesnt let me mount
> within the mount points.  If you read the man page for exports(5) it
> specifically mentions the -alldirs flag, but mountd doesnt wanna support
> it.
> 
> >From the exports(5) man page:
> "The second is to specify the pathname of the root of the filesystem
                                                ^^^^
is /home its own file system?

> followed by the -alldirs flag; this form allows the host(s) to mount at
> any point within the filesystem"

Take care,

Bill