On 5 December 2017 at 00:43, J. Fahrner <jf@???> wrote:

> Yes I need it for virtual machines so they won't store the same data.
>
> NFS is not the right protocol for such things. NFS is a *network* storage
> filesystem and behaves not like a local filesystem. Through NFS user root
> gets mapped to nobody on the remote system, otherwise NFS would be a big
> security risc.
>

Find out 'no_root_squash' option. From 'man exports':
"no_root_squash Turn off root squashing. This option is mainly useful for
diskless clients."

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Regards,
Yevgeny