Re: and now, back to your regularly scheduled discussion topic...
Patrick Horgan (patrick@oes.amdahl.com)
Mon, 8 May 1995 12:09:12 +0800
>
> 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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