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RE: nfs-server - status & request for information
- From: "Robb, Sam" <sam dot robb at timesys dot com>
- To: <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 23:57:19 -0500
- Subject: RE: nfs-server - status & request for information
> > A workaround is to create a regular directory, mount the Windows
> > drive at that directory, and then export the directory. For
> > example:
> >
> > $ mkdir -p /exports/c
> > $ mount -f -s -b c:/ /exports/c
> > $ echo "/exports/c (ro,all_squash)" >> /etc/exports
>
> Will it work if you simply do "mkdir /cygdrive"?
AFAICT, no.
It appears that "/cygdrive" (or, I would suppose, whatever the
mount prefix is) is "special". stat() reports it as a directory
with a uid of 0, a gid of 0, a size of 0, and a device ID of 6400.
"/proc" is similar, but the device id is 6656.
> If not, shouldn't it?
<shrug> I honestly don't know.
I suspect that the problem here is that we're toggling device IDs
as we move along the path...
- If you stat '/', you get st_dev == 'A'.
- If you stat '/cygdrive', you get st_dev == 'B'.
- If you stat '/cygdrive/c', you get st_dev == 'A' again.
OTOH, if you 'mkdir -p /exports/c' then mount c:/ under
/exports/c, then you end up with st_dev == 'A' for every
directory along the path from / to /exports/c.
-Samrobb