Re: file :"/var/lib/nfs/rmtab"

[James Pearson <james-p@moving-picture.com>]

mehta kiran wrote:
> Hi , 
>        In mountd man page , it written that
>        rmtab is ornamental and client can contiune
>        to use filesystem even after calling umount
>        for that filesystem.
> 
>        Is there any real use of this rmtab file ?
>        Does mountd use this file to know the
>        clients having access to filesystem ?
>        If yes , isn,t filehandle supplied by 
>        client enough to prove that client has access
>        to filesystem. ?

On 2.4 kernels it is not 'ornamental' - if the server reboots without an 
entry for a client mount in /var/lib/nfs/rmtab, then the client will get 
a stale NFS file handle when the server reboots. This can happen if 
umount fails e.g. the mount point is busy - rpc.mountd on the server 
removes the entry from /var/lib/nfs/rmtab, but umount fails, so the file 
system remains mounted.

I believe the situation has changed with 2.6.

James Pearson


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