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Date:      Tue, 19 Oct 1999 23:33:41 -0700
From:      "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com>
To:        Phil Homewood <philh@mincom.com>
Cc:        Tony Finch <fanf@demon.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Stupid file system tricks. 
Message-ID:  <16908.940401221@monkeys.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 20 Oct 1999 09:52:45 %2B1000. <19991020095245.P8842@mincom.com> 

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In message <19991020095245.P8842@mincom.com>, you wrote:

>Tony Finch wrote:
>> nullfs would be great for this situation if it worked.
>
>Or NFS, if nullfs is still broke.
>
>mount localhost:/some/mounted/dir /some/other/location
>
>Obviously a nullfs is (theoretically) more efficient, but NFS
>has been working for me for years.

Thanks.  That _would_ work, if I was willing to trust NFS.  But my
(admittedly limited) understanding of it suggests that it is too
much of a security risk to run NFS on anything that is connected to
the public Internet.

nullfs would be marvelous, if it was reliable.


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