Hi Josh,
	Funny, my NetBSD box requires exports to be file system mount
points...

Thanks,
Josh

On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Joshua Coombs wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 02:20:25PM +0000, Alex Kirk wrote:
> > I'm going to respond primarily to Josh's post, since others (i.e. "fix your
> > /etc/exports" without mentioning what's wrong) weren't terribly helpful.
> >
> > > 	is /mnt/exports/dcswap it's own partition?
> >
> > No, it's not. I have all of one partition on this drive. Is this going to be
> > problematic? What *exactly* are the rules for where the swapfile can live?
> > Why?
> >
>
> Some nfs implimentations do not allow one to arbitrarily pick mount
> points to export.  Any mount point exported must be a fs mount point, so
> unlsess you mount /mnt/export/dcswap as is't own fs, those OS's won't
> export it.  If that is the case they will puke when trying to start
> mountd.  NetBSD has no such issues and you can just pick mount points
> that donot reside on fs boundries and it'll happily behaive properly.
>
> Joshua Coombs
>