From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Steve Dickson Subject: Re: Is order for "exportfs -r" and rpc.mountd important? Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2008 09:43:55 -0500 Message-ID: <4937ECAB.3020407@RedHat.com> References: <200811281541.39272.t.bubeck@reinform.de> <200812041025.02563.t.bubeck@reinform.de> <4937E243.1080608@RedHat.com> <200812041516.14114.t.bubeck@reinform.de> <20081204143553.GC3495@fieldses.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: "Dr. Tilmann Bubeck" , linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org To: "J. Bruce Fields" Return-path: Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:50025 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752627AbYLDOqI (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Dec 2008 09:46:08 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20081204143553.GC3495@fieldses.org> Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 03:16:13PM +0100, Dr. Tilmann Bubeck wrote: >> It's very good that it is fixed in Fedora (my preferred distribution), but it >> is still wrong in SuSe (verified) and probably more. >> >> A better way would be to fix NFS and its utilities itself instead of fixing >> the distribution. This means, that the way the kernel and nfs-utils interact >> should be made more robust (see my posting before). > > The problem of exportfs ignoring the uuid, at least, should be easy > enough to fix. > > I'd start by looking for the relevant code in nfs-utils/utils/exportfs/ > that passes the export entry down to the kernel and figure out what > mountd is doing that it's not. FYI... I created a bz (https://bugzilla.linux-nfs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171) to track this problem steved.