> > I was recently reading this manual page as part of exploring running > > an NFS server on Ubuntu 16.04 (with Ubuntu's kernel '4.4.0') and found > > two inaccuracies with the current state of the kernel (or at least how > > it looks to me based on both experimentation and code). > > > > First, there is no /proc/net/rpc/auth.domain directory and cache any > > more. This was removed from the kernel in 2006 (in commit efc36aa5608f), > > so I think it should be safe to remove from current versions of the > > manpage. > > I agree. > > > > > Second, the manpage says about the 'flush' files to be found in eg > > /proc/net/rpc/auth.unix.ip: > > > > When a number of seconds since epoch (1 Jan 1970) is written to > > this file, all entries in the cache that were last updated before > > that file become invalidated and will be flushed out. Writing > > 1 will flush everything. [...] > > > > The bit about 'writing 1 will flush everything' does not appear to be > > accurate. > > I was never accurate. I vaguely remember writing it. I must have been > confused. > > Would you be able to create a patch which fixes these issues, and post > it, with a signed-off-by ? Here is a patch that deletes the mention of auth.domain and changes the wording around 'flush' files. I'm not attached to the revised wording; it's just the best I could manage in something that felt that it was within the same style and space as the current wording. Signed-off-by: Chris Siebenmann <cks.nfs01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/utils/exportfs/nfsd.man b/utils/exportfs/nfsd.man index 0c516fa..9efa29f 100644 --- a/utils/exportfs/nfsd.man +++ b/utils/exportfs/nfsd.man @@ -105,11 +105,6 @@ clients have for different filesystems. The caches are: .TP -.B auth.domain -This cache maps the name of a client (or domain) to an internal data -structure. The only access that is possible is to flush the cache. - -.TP .B auth.unix.ip This cache contains a mapping from IP address to the name of the authentication domain that the ipaddress should be treated as part of. @@ -133,7 +128,8 @@ are: .B flush When a number of seconds since epoch (1 Jan 1970) is written to this file, all entries in the cache that were last updated before that file -become invalidated and will be flushed out. Writing 1 will flush +become invalidated and will be flushed out. Writing a time in the +future (in seconds since epoch) will flush everything. This is the only file that will always be present. .TP - cks -- 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
