Re: nfsd stales when restarting too fast

[Frank Steiner <fsteiner-mail@bio.ifi.lmu.de>]

Neil Brown wrote:
> 
> Probably the best solution is to "not do that" - why do you want to
> stop and then restart the server anyway?  Why not just leave it
> running.

Aeh, well, yes. Of course I should not restart but just reload when
sth. has changed... That's because I'm not used to the reload
option since it didn't exist in the early SuSE versions I was using, so
I'm always using restart. With reload (which just issues exportfs -r
in the SuSE init script) no problem occurs. I definitely should have
thought of that *feeling stupid* :-((

> 
> However there is a race the, and "sleep 1" would fix it.
> Another fix would be to use "-1" instead of "-9" to kill nfsd.  This
> causes it to exit without clearing the export table.
> Another fix would be to apply to following patch to your 2.6 kernel.

Just in case I forget the reload again next time I will include your
patch in my kernel rpm, too. Just to be sure :-)

Thanks for your help!
cu,
Frank

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