From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "J. Bruce Fields" Subject: Re: Is order for "exportfs -r" and rpc.mountd important? Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 09:35:53 -0500 Message-ID: <20081204143553.GC3495@fieldses.org> References: <200811281541.39272.t.bubeck@reinform.de> <200812041025.02563.t.bubeck@reinform.de> <4937E243.1080608@RedHat.com> <200812041516.14114.t.bubeck@reinform.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Steve Dickson , linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org To: "Dr. Tilmann Bubeck" Return-path: Received: from mail.fieldses.org ([66.93.2.214]:38093 "EHLO fieldses.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753882AbYLDOf4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Dec 2008 09:35:56 -0500 In-Reply-To: <200812041516.14114.t.bubeck-dx1aEnP5Zukb1SvskN2V4Q@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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. --b.