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Why doesn NFS-exporting subdirectories of inode64-mounted filesystem work?

April 26, 2017filesystem subdirectories

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Why doesn NFS-exporting subdirectories of inode64-mounted filesystem work?

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The default fsid type encodes only 32-bit of the inode number for subdirectory exports. However, exporting the root of the filesystem works, or using one of the non-default fsid types (fsid=uuid in /etc/exports with recent nfs-utils) should work as well.