Re: kexportfs features
G. Allen Morris III (gam3@dharma.sehda.com)
Sat, 12 Sep 1998 13:28:18 -0700
>>>"G. Allen Morris III" said:
> There are several improvements that I need to be made to kexportfs
> IMHO.
>
> 1. The Clients should be stored in xtab as IP numbers.
> Right now kmountd can hang for a long time on start-up
> trying to resolve names. It calls auth_init before
> it forks. I don't see any down side to this, but I
> can be myopic at times.
>
> 2. If the kernel rejects an export kexportfs still makes an
> entry in the xtab file. This would not be a problem except
> that the order that kmountd will mount these after a reboot
> is not clear.
>
> 3. The command `kexport -u bob:/usr' should unexport bob.site.net if
> that is what `bob' resolves to. I think that fixing 1. above will
> fix this problem as well. Since all lookups can be done by IP.
4. There needs to be a `devived export' list. The problem is that if there
is a wildcard export like :/. If host `A' mounts / and then
`kexportfs -au' is executed followed by a `kexportfs -a' host `A' will
get a `Stale file handle' error until `kexport A:/' is executed.
Anyone have ideas on the best way to handle this problem?
Allen
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G. Allen Morris III
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