According to manual page "exportfs -r" has two modes: legacy and new. Fedora 10 seems to use the new mode and mounts /proc/fs/nfsd. But they use the following order in /etc/init.d/nfs: exportfs -r rpc.mountd This results in /proc/fs/nfsd/exports having all obsolete entries from /var/lib/nfs/rmtab which causes a lot of trouble with stale NFS file handles. This seems to be wrong according to "man exportfs" in new mode. If I change the order to rpc.mountd exportfs -r then everything is OK and /proc/fs/nfsd/exports only contains the info from /etc/exports and not all stale clients. This seems to be correct according to "man exportfs" in new mode. Questions: is this behaviour a bug or at least bad? Shouldn't exportfs being changed, so that when it detects "new" mode it will never feed rmtab into the kernel and rely upon rpc.mountd answering the kernels questions as stated in "man exportfs"? If yes, then the order or the programs is irrelevant. If not, should the order of the programs be reversed in Fedora? Thanks Till -- +-------+-------------------------------------------------------------+ | | dr. tilmann bubeck reinform medien- und | | | informationstechnologie AG | | rein | fon : +49 (711) 7 82 76-52 loeffelstr. 40 | | form | fax : +49 (711) 7 82 76-46 70597 stuttgart / germany | | AG | cell.: +49 (172) 8 84 29 72 fon: +49 (711) 75 86 56-10 | | | email: t.bubeck@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.reinform.de | | +-------------------------------------------------------------+ | | pflichtangaben nach paragraph 80, AktG: | | | reinform medien- und informationstechnologie AG, stuttgart | | | handelsregister stuttgart, HRB 23001 | | | vorstand: dr. tilmann bubeck (vorsitz), dr. tommy kuhn | | | aufsichtsrat: frank stege (vorsitz) | +-------+-------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
