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From: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
To: Frank van Maarseveen <frankvm@frankvm.com>
Cc: nfs@lists.sourceforge.net, Jan Rekorajski <baggins@sith.mimuw.edu.pl>
Subject: Re: RELEASE CANDIDATE - nfs-utils-1.1.0-rc1
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 09:35:29 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <17936.16833.295258.406430@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: message from Frank van Maarseveen on Sunday April 1

On Sunday April 1, frankvm@frankvm.com wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 07:31:25PM +1000, Neil Brown wrote:
> > 
> > Hmm... good question.
> > 
> > I think:
> > 
> >   - idmapd and gssd should be started before any nfs mount
> >   - idmapd and svcgssd should be started before nfsd
> >   - mountd should start before nfsd.
> 
> At first that seems the logically correct order but suppose a client
> succeeds in mounting something but issues NFS requests before nfsd got
> started on the server?

That shouldn't matter.  The NFS server will not respond so the client
will retry.
Ofcourse if you have a soft mount it could get messy, but then soft
mounts are always messy.

> 
> where's the exportfs?

Good point.  exportfs should be run before mountd is started, and
after nfsd filesystem is mounted.

NeilBrown


> 
> Consider a "sleep 30" at every point in the startup sequence and think
> about what would go wrong. Also consider a dead-again server at every
> point in the startup sequence.
> 
> -- 
> Frank

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-01 23:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-29  4:12 RELEASE CANDIDATE - nfs-utils-1.1.0-rc1 Neil Brown
2007-03-29  8:44 ` Jan Rekorajski
2007-03-29  9:31   ` Neil Brown
2007-03-29 12:44     ` Jan Rekorajski
2007-03-29 14:20       ` Trond Myklebust
2007-03-29 16:35         ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-03-29 16:45           ` Talpey, Thomas
2007-03-29 14:24     ` Trond Myklebust
2007-03-29 14:30     ` Talpey, Thomas
2007-04-01 12:16     ` Frank van Maarseveen
2007-04-01 23:35       ` Neil Brown [this message]
2007-04-01 12:04   ` Frank van Maarseveen
2007-03-29  9:51 ` Bernd Schubert
2007-03-30  2:19   ` Neil Brown
2007-03-30 10:44     ` Bernd Schubert

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