You should note that using this option is likely to make NFS even
more insecure than normal.
Allen
>>>Mark Hahn said:
> > I tried knfsd once and noticed that I had to export all mounted file syste
ms
> > before it would work like the userspace nfsd did. Any reason for this?
>
> my understanding is that knfsd wants to use inode numbers in the handles
> that it passes out to clients (which must persis across server restarts).
> and inode numbers are not unique across filesystems. what I don't know is
> why it can't hash the inode with some per-FS id to accomplish the obviously
> desirable behavior. is it that re-exporting the same file two ways
> presents a permissions/accounting pain?
>
> thanks, mark hahn.
>
>
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