Re: Is order for "exportfs -r" and rpc.mountd important?

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To be more precise: the order between "exportfs -r" and "modprobe nfsd" is 
important (and not "exportfs -r" and "rpc.mountd").

Am Freitag, 28. November 2008 15:41:38 schrieb Dr. Tilmann Bubeck:
> 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



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