Subject: Re: Interface to change NFS exports
To: None <jmmv84@gmail.com>
From: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 09/11/2005 14:46:38
Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
>Hi everybody,
>
>while adding NFS support to tmpfs, I found that the current way to
>change NFS export information is... how could I say it... very ugly.
>It seems to be a bandaid over what was used in the past to mount
>FFS systems, which makes it confusing and difficult to extend.
>(Don't we aim for clean design? ;-)
>
>
Hi Julio,
I agree with most of these changes, but I'd like to see an additional
change: overloading the mount system call with export functionality is
just wrong. There should be a seperate exportfs system call.
- Frank