Exporting /

["Blake L. Carlson" <blake-carlson uiowa edu>]

Hello all -

I'm having trouble exporting my root partition with NFS.  I need to run
backups with BRU from our backup server.  It would be nice if I could
export / with read-only access and no_root_squash.

All of my other exports are working just fine.  I just can't export /. 
Is there some default security "feature" I need to over-ride to do
this.  I'm using RedHat-6.0.


The offending line in /etc/exports looks like:
/ fovea.eng.uiowa.edu(ro,no_root_squash)

When I run "exportfs -r" I get:
fovea.eng.uiowa.edu:/: Invalid argument

Thanks -

Blake Carlson
blake-carlson@uiowa.edu
College of Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Iowa