attempting to export the non-root of a filesystem with -alldirs. This
pilot error seems to be very common, and the "could not remount" error
message doesn't give much hints about the real reason. See the old PR
below for an example.
While i was at it, make it possible to entirely omit the often
annoying error message in that case by specifying the "quiet" exports
flag. This allows to specify something like
/cdrom -alldirs,ro,quiet <where to export to>
which will silently fail if nothing is mounted under /cdrom, but do
the rigth thing as soon as you mount something.
While doing this, i've put the embedded example in the exports(5) man
page into a subsection of its own as it ought to be.
Thanks for Paul Southworth for reminding me about this problem.
PR: bin/4448
MFC after: 1 month
The version 2 support has been tested (client+server) against FreeBSD-2.0,
IRIX 5.3 and FreeBSD-current (using a loopback mount). The version 2 support
is stable AFAIK.
The version 3 support has been tested with a loopback mount and minimally
against an IRIX 5.3 server. It needs more testing and may have problems.
I have patched amd to support the new variable length filehandles although
it will still only use version 2 of the protocol.
Before booting a kernel with these changes, nfs clients will need to at least
build and install /usr/sbin/mount_nfs. Servers will need to build and
install /usr/sbin/mountd.
NFS diskless support is untested.
Obtained from: Rick Macklem <rick@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca>
