From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 08:58:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 08:58:22 -0400 Received: from va.flyingbuttmonkeys.com ([207.198.61.36]:8653 "EHLO va.flyingbuttmonkeys.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 08:58:07 -0400 Message-ID: <000c01c1379c$c427c0d0$81d4870a@cartman> Reply-To: "Michael Rothwell" From: "Michael Rothwell" To: "Neil Brown" Cc: In-Reply-To: <002b01c136e1$3bb36a80$81d4870a@cartman> <15256.46017.7716.689482@notabene.cse.unsw.edu.au> Subject: Re: nfs is stupid ("getfh failed") Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 08:58:18 -0400 Organization: Holly Springs, NC MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "Neil Brown" > 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