Re: nfs is stupid ("getfh failed")

["Michael Rothwell" <rothwell@holly-springs.nc.us>]

From: "Neil Brown" <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>

> This is not allowed, and makes no sense.

It apparently is (or was, anyway) allowed, because it worked until the
server was rebooted. Fluke?
Are you saying that, if I export "/export", I can mount "/export/home" from
a client machine? That's nice.

> Simply remove the second line and your problems should go away.

Thanks. I actually switched to two explicit exports; /export/files and
/export/home, which works.


> > On a related topic, will Linux ever have a better file-service protocol?
>
> This is an unanswerable question.  The future of Linux is completely
> undefined until it happens.

Just wondering if there's been any talk, plans, etc. of an alternative for
NFS.

> What exactly do you mean by "better" anyway?

Better security, better performance.

Thanks,

-M