re-exporting an NFS filesystem

[Chris Snook]

Alastair Neil wrote:
> 2008/4/7 Chris Kottaridis <chriskot at quietwind.net>:
>>  Is it possible to re-export an NFS file system ?
>>
>>  So, if I am a client with an NFS mount point, can I export that mount point
>> and then have some other host nfs mount my mount point ?
>>
>>  I was pretty sure the answer is no, but I don't know why not. Is there some
>> RFC somewhere that indicates that this is not part of NFS design to do that
>> ?
>>
>>  Thanks
>>      Chris Kottaridis    (chriskot at quietwind.net)
> 
> Not with the kernel nfs server, but I am told there are some user
> space nfs servers that will let you do this.  You can export the file
> systems with samba and afp.

Of course, if you do this, it had better be read-only everywhere, or 
else you'll get some rather interesting data corruption.

-- Chris