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 -- +-------+-------------------------------------------------------------+ | | 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
