Re: nfsd, rmtab, failover, and stale filehandles

["J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>]

On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 03:34:15PM -0700, Garrick Staples wrote:
> I'm looking at exportfs.c to see if I can add in a call to flush the caching
> when unmounting, does the following seem reasonable?

Small note--I think your mailer must be messing up your patches--the
patch you appended e.g. has all tabs changed to spaces, and doesn't
apply.

> Force a cache flush if unexporting, and don't reread rmtab if we're using the
> new cache.

Hm. I don't understand why unexporting is a special case here; what
about changing export options?  When I run exportfs, I expect any
changes to take place before it returns, so I don't understand why
there's a "force_flush" option at all--shouldn't the kernel's export
tables be flushed every time exportfs is run?

Can someone explaing what the reason was for adding the -f flag to
exportfs?

--Bruce Fields


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