mounting NFS filesystems directly under the root

[Wietse Z. Venema]

In the recent past, several postings mentioned that

>... it is not a good idea to [NFS] mount fs's directly under root

but do not explain why that is a bad thing to do. Inquiring minds
want to know...
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