Subject: Re: Interface to change NFS exports
To: Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com>
From: Pavel Cahyna <cahyna@pc313.imc.cas.cz>
List: tech-kern
Date: 09/11/2005 17:18:22
[ originally sent to tech-net@ by mistake ]

On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 10:16:09 -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:

> Is the notion of 'exporting' NFS-specific still?  While I'm not aware
> of another NFS-like protocol in wide use (afs and coda don't serve
> local filesystems), it seems the notion of controlling what parts of
> the filesystem tree can be served over NFS-like protocols is more
> general than just NFS.  Then, one would perhaps want to control
> exports separately for separate protocols.
> 
> That said, I don't object to what you are doing now, which seems
> orthogonal to the multiprotocol export issue.

Is there any other NFS-like protocol except NFS? That is, which would
be stateless and would use filehandles to access files?

Bye	Pavel