From: Andreas Unterluggauer <au@literaturhaus.at>
Subject: Re: NFS problems across reboot
Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 14:15:26 +0200
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>=20
> "Exporting" a filesystem means doing two things:
>  1/ telling mountd that it is allow to respond positively to mount
>      requests.
>  2/ telling the kernel nfsd that it is allow to respond to access
>      requests.
>=20
> When mountd responds to a mount request, it also tells the kernel to
> respond to access requests.
> But after a reboot, you need to run exportfs.  It reads
> /var/lib/nfs/rmtab to find out which clients have which filesystems
> mounted, and it tells the kernel to allow those clients to access
> those filesystem.

Is it sufficent, if exportfs -r is run before rpc.nfsd are started
instead of exportfs -a?
The startscripts of redhat 6.2 uses exportfs -r (and we sometimes have
troubles with stale mounts).

andi

--=20
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