NFS puzzle

[Gerald Combs]

On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:

> Quoting Gerald Combs <gerald at ethereal.com>: 
>  
> > You might try changing your exports to match a specific host or exporting 
> > (and mounting) /mnt/iso/mdk91.1 explicitly. 
>  
> > > Entries in /etc/exports:  
>    
> > > /mnt/iso *(ro,insecure,nohide,all_squash)  
> > > /usr/share *(ro,insecure,nohide,all_squash)  
>  
> It has something to do with the contents of /mnt/iso being distinct mounts, 
> while /usr/share is a normal directory tree, but... 
>  
> By listing each of the mounted images (/mnt/iso/mdk91.1, etc) explicitly, it 
> works. 

>From what I understand, files are referenced in the underlying system by
device:inode.  Exporting multiple filesystems in a directory tree runs the
risk of the client running into duplicate inodes.  I'm not sure what
trickery the "nohide" option uses to get around this.