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From: bfields@fieldses.org (J. Bruce Fields)
To: Trond Myklebust <trondmy@gmail.com>
Cc: steved@redhat.com, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 4/5] Add support for chrooted exports
Date: Wed, 15 May 2019 10:14:01 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190515141401.GB9291@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190514204153.79603-5-trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>

On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 04:41:52PM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> diff --git a/utils/nfsd/nfsd.man b/utils/nfsd/nfsd.man
> index d83ef869d26e..8fb23721daf6 100644
> --- a/utils/nfsd/nfsd.man
> +++ b/utils/nfsd/nfsd.man
> @@ -167,6 +167,10 @@ Setting these to "off" or similar will disable the selected minor
>  versions.  Setting to "on" will enable them.  The default values
>  are determined by the kernel, and usually minor versions default to
>  being enabled once the implementation is sufficiently complete.
> +.B chroot
> +Setting this to a valid path causes the nfs server to act as if the
> +supplied path is being prefixed to all the exported entries.

I don't feel like this is completely clear.  Maybe add an example like:
"If the export file contains a line like "/path *(rw)", clients will
mount "/path" but the filesystem they see will be the one at
"$chroot/path"". ?

--b.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-05-15 14:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-14 20:41 [RFC PATCH 0/5] Add a chroot option to nfs.conf Trond Myklebust
2019-05-14 20:41 ` [RFC PATCH 1/5] mountd: Ensure we don't share cache file descriptors among processes Trond Myklebust
2019-05-14 20:41   ` [RFC PATCH 2/5] Add a simple workqueue mechanism Trond Myklebust
2019-05-14 20:41     ` [RFC PATCH 3/5] Add a helper to write to a file through the chrooted thread Trond Myklebust
2019-05-14 20:41       ` [RFC PATCH 4/5] Add support for chrooted exports Trond Myklebust
2019-05-14 20:41         ` [RFC PATCH 5/5] Add support for chroot in exportfs Trond Myklebust
2019-05-15 14:14         ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2019-05-15 14:01 ` [RFC PATCH 0/5] Add a chroot option to nfs.conf J. Bruce Fields
2019-05-15 14:38   ` Trond Myklebust

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