Correct use of NFS

[Joseph Huber_1]

But then the solution is easy:

the clients mount command needs once and for all fix the mount path (or the logical name resulting in) to say "/export/dir".
There is to my knowledge no way around specifying a subdirectory: in Unix speech "/export" is a device path only, and TCPIP mount "speaks" Unix in this regard.

Then only the server side need to change when the disk/directory becomes different:

Map /export to the new disk.
Create a directory alias (or hardlink on ODS5 disks) [DIR] pointing to the new directory,
then "/export/dir" need not be changed at all, and all the clients can mount without changing a single character in the pathname.

[Wim Van den Wyngaert]

Ok J but I avoid hardlinks. I was searching for a pure tcpip thing (e.g. via mapping).

Wim

[Jan van den Ende]

Wim,

if I understand correctly, you want to be able to just use:

SOMEDIR:

as a directory spec?

In that case you CAN
$ DEFINE/SYSTEM/EXEC SOMEDIR DNFS:[topdir.subdir]
Then you just
We have been using it for some time (although it has been quite some time ago).

Proost.

Have one on me.

jpe