> Solaris does achieve 'NFS-mounts from the local Server' via a special
> "Filesystem", the so called "Loopback Filesystem (lsof)". If you give me
> a few days I can look what the lsof does. I expect, that it does
> something like a "redirect" or a "special hard-link" without increasing
> the Link-Counter.
>
> So what I think you have to do is to write a new filesystem with a new
> mount-command (mount.lsof), so that you can do a mount -F lsof
> localhost:/export/home/bla /home/bla.
>
> In my opinion this isn't too easy to handle. By the way: I would never
> let inexperienced people work on the Fileserver; even I wouldn't let any
> person except Administrators work on the fileserver.
The typical application is in installations where workstations are
fileservers at the same time (and the admins are bofhish enough to lart
everyone who dares to switch of his machine ...), but central file servers
don't exist or are of minor importance.
Ralf
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