On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 08:15:07PM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 02:40:59PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > > There's no reason not to just mount server:/exports/data directly at > > /home/data; the bind mounts are just a workaround for the somewhat > > primitive exports facility on the server side. > > Bullshit. Bindings are first-class operations on _client_, regardless > of fs types involved.
I know. Did I say something to the contrary? Maybe I was too terse; in more detail: the original poster appears to be mounting server:/exports/data by first mounting server:/ somewhere and then bind-mounting the exports/data someplace else. I couldn't see an obvious reason they'd be using two steps instead of just performing a single mount of server:/exports/data. So my assumption was that this was due to a confused memory of some server-side setup instructions. (On the server side, nfs4 export setup often requires the administrator to do some extra bind mounts which shouldn't really be necessary.) --b. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
