Rather than mounting every volume containing a file of interest, NAS clients mount an NFS export or access an SMB share. The export or share represents the entire namespace or an intermediate location within the namespace. The client accesses only the volumes mounted below its access point.

You can add volumes to the namespace as needed. You can create junction points directly below a parent volume junction or on a directory within a volume. A path to a volume junction for a volume named “vol3” might be /vol1/vol2/vol3, or /vol1/dir2/vol3, or even /dir1/dir2/vol3. The path is called the junction path.

Every SVM has a unique namespace. The SVM root volume is the entry point to the namespace hierarchy.

The following example creates a volume named “home4” located on SVM vs1 that has a junction path /eng/home: