From: "Steinar H. Gunderson" Subject: [PATCH] Clarify language in man exportfs Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:04:43 +0100 Message-ID: <20071029180443.GA6109@uio.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: nfs@lists.sourceforge.net Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx2-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.92] helo=mail.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list2-new.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ImYyp-0004ez-ES for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:04:51 -0700 Received: from cassarossa.samfundet.no ([129.241.93.19] ident=Debian-exim) by mail.sourceforge.net with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.44) id 1ImYyq-0001w7-GK for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:04:57 -0700 Received: from trofast.ipv6.sesse.net ([2001:700:300:1803:20e:cff:fe36:a766] helo=trofast.sesse.net) by cassarossa.samfundet.no with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1ImYyl-0001xJ-0J for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:04:47 +0100 Received: from root by trofast.sesse.net with local (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1ImYyh-0001au-35 for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:04:43 +0100 List-Id: "Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: nfs-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: nfs-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net (I still have two pending minor patches, by the way :-) ) As discussed in a user case earlier, the wording in the exportfs man page can be a bit confusing, implying that "exportfs -u :/foo" will unexport /foo from all hosts, which it won't. Thus, make the language clearer -- based on suggestion/patch from David Liontooth. Signed-off-by: Steinar H. Gunderson --- nfs-utils-1.1.1.orig/utils/exportfs/exportfs.man +++ nfs-utils-1.1.1/utils/exportfs/exportfs.man @@ -167,11 +167,13 @@ all entries listed in are removed from the kernel export tables, and the file is cleared. This effectively shuts down all NFS activity. .P -To remove individual export entries, one can specify a +To remove an export to a host, specify a .I host:/path pair. This deletes the specified entry from .B xtab and removes the corresponding kernel entry (if any). +To remove one or more exports to several hosts, use +.BR "exportfs -ua" . .P .\" -------------------- Dumping the Export Table ----------------- .SS Dumping the Export Table /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs