Subject: Re: Netbooting && mountd ...
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@jocelyn.rhein.de>
List: current-users
Date: 11/17/1999 21:44:43
On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 03:05:36PM -0800, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Hauke Fath wrote:
> 
> > Nov 16 22:06:18 elmo mountd[478]: "/export/usr.mac68k                   morrissey", line 12: Can't change attributes for /export/usr.mac68k to morrissey.hf.org
> > 
> > -- outright refusing to export more than one directory from one file
> > system. This example is based on the www.netbsd.org "diskless" pages,
> > btw. Exporting "/export -alldirs ..." works.
> 
> Unfortunatly this is a fundamental behavior of our mountd. I'm not sure
> why, but it is..

I think the problem is that NFS operates on (filesystem-id, inode) - tuples,
so the server can not distinguish requests. 

Regards,
	-is

DISCLAIMER: I'm no NFS expert. I only play one on TV.