Hi, there is a bug in the old-cache behaviour of mountd. Hopefully no-one is using this but you never know.... The bug was reported to redhat https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=164186 It was fixed incorrectly and never (that I recall) reported upstream. :-( A SLES customer thinks they have hit the same problem, which is why I'm looking at it. (They shouldn't really hit it because that version of sles uses 'new_cache' but maybe nfsdfs was disabled somehow - don't know yet). Anyway, when mountd gets a mount request, it tells the kernel about it and remembers that it told the kernel so it doesn't have to tell the kernel again. It is possible that "exportfs -r" will tell the kernel to forget that information if the client has since unmounted. So mountd really needs to tell the kernel even if it thinks the kernel should already know. The following patch does this if the kernel refuses to provide a valid filehandle. Does RHEL3 use old-cache or new-cache ?? Thanks, NeilBrown From: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> Subject: retry export if getfh fails. mountd tries to avoid telling the kernel to export something when the kernel already knows to do that. However sometimes (exportfs -r) the kernel can be told to forget something without mountd realising. So if mountd finds that it cannot get a valid filehandle, make sure it really has been exported to the kernel. This only applies if the nfsd filesystem is not mounted. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> diff --git a/utils/mountd/mountd.c b/utils/mountd/mountd.c index 25d292b..b59f939 100644 --- a/utils/mountd/mountd.c +++ b/utils/mountd/mountd.c @@ -467,8 +467,12 @@ get_rootfh(struct svc_req *rqstp, dirpath *path, nfs_export **expret, return NULL; } } else { - if (exp->m_exported<1) + int did_export = 0; + retry: + if (exp->m_exported<1) { export_export(exp); + did_export = 1; + } if (!exp->m_xtabent) xtab_append(exp); @@ -482,6 +486,11 @@ get_rootfh(struct svc_req *rqstp, dirpath *path, nfs_export **expret, fh = getfh_old ((struct sockaddr *) sin, stb.st_dev, stb.st_ino); } + if (fh == NULL && !did_export) { + exp->m_exported = 0; + goto retry; + } + if (fh == NULL) { xlog(L_WARNING, "getfh failed: %s", strerror(errno)); *error = NFSERR_ACCES; -- 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