nfs4 filesystem mounted via the "bind" option reports wrong fstype

[J. Bruce Fields]

On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 08:15:07PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 02:40:59PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
>  
> > There's no reason not to just mount server:/exports/data directly at
> > /home/data; the bind mounts are just a workaround for the somewhat
> > primitive exports facility on the server side.
> 
> Bullshit.  Bindings are first-class operations on _client_, regardless
> of fs types involved.

I know.  Did I say something to the contrary?

Maybe I was too terse; in more detail: the original poster appears to be
mounting server:/exports/data by first mounting server:/ somewhere and
then bind-mounting the exports/data someplace else.  I couldn't see an
obvious reason they'd be using two steps instead of just performing a
single mount of server:/exports/data.

So my assumption was that this was due to a confused memory of some
server-side setup instructions.  (On the server side, nfs4 export setup
often requires the administrator to do some extra bind mounts which
shouldn't really be necessary.)

--b.