Re: and now, back to your regularly scheduled discussion topic...

[patrick () oes amdahl com (Patrick Horgan)]

> and now for something completely different (apologies to M. Python):
>
> ObBug:  i have recently discovered that it is possible to re-export an
> imported filesystem under Linux.  to illustrate:
>
> hostA --> exports /usr/share to -access=hostB
> hostB --> a linux box.  re-exports /usr/share to everyone
> hostC --> not implicitly trusted by hostA, mounts /usr/share
>
> aside from any security concerns, this would certainly thrash your nfsd's.
> does anyone have any experience with this?  i have only recently discovered
> this, and have not had time to peruse it in depth.

Are you sure about this?  Any system using nfs will allow this, but the
directory they mount from hostB is the mount directory, not the /usr/share
form hostA.

Patrick
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