From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 26 10:00:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA00668 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 26 Jun 1997 10:00:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA00629 for ; Thu, 26 Jun 1997 10:00:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id JAA07861; Thu, 26 Jun 1997 09:47:36 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199706261647.JAA07861@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: NetBSD and WebNFS To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 09:47:35 -0700 (MST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Warner Losh" at Jun 25, 97 10:58:46 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Looks like NetBSD just imported WebNFS support. Just thought I'd pass > this along because it is relevant to the market nitche that FreeBSD is > generally used in. WebNFS is pretty trivial; it just means "interpret the handle 0 as an unauthenticated connection to the WebNFS root". WebNFS is not terribly useful for more than one exported volume, unfortunately; it's a hack. That's why CIFS endangers it. As a hack on a hack, you can seperate services by IP alias to get multiple volumes. This is not terribly satisfactory. The alternative is to unify the NFS namespace, which is not trivial. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.