On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 12:20:20PM -0800, John Z. Bohach wrote: > Hello, > > When I modify /etc/exports and re-run exportfs -a -r, newly > added/removed/modified entries take effect, EXCEPT that all existing > clients lose their current mounts. Existing clients have to umount > then mount NFS filesystems that were not even modified. > > Is this intentional behavior? No, that shouldn't happen. As trond says, check whether you have the "nfsd" filesystem mounted. > If I try to manually add a new directory > for export, and just use "exportfs -i ..." and specify the new > directory to export that way, all existing entries in /etc/exports are > gratuitously UNexported, all clients lose their current mounts, and > only the one entry specified via the command line of "exportfs -i ..." > is exported. This doesn't seem like intentional behavior? Or is it > just the exportfs program that's broken? I didn't know -i; looking at the man page, I think that's may be what's intended. (I haven't looked at the code.) Why not just drop the "-i"? --b. > I'm running linux-2.6.24.4 and using exportfs from nfs-utils-1.1.3 > though I've noticed this behavior on older versions of both. > > Is there some NFS option I'm supposed to use in /etc/fstab on the > clients to keep this remount thing from being necessary? I'm pretty > sure I tried both soft and hard mounts. I'm currently using TCP as the > mount transport layer...would UDP fix this issue, I haven't tested > that...either way, even with TCP, it would be a big blow against using > TCP as the mount transport if umount/mount sequence was required on the > clients everytime time the server re-ran exportfs, which is what is > happening now. > > Anybody know what's going on? > > Thanks, > > John > > P.S.: Please keep me in the CC list, I'm not subscribed to the list. > -- > 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 -- 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
