Bug 1166585

Summary: Empty /etc/exports (or non existent) breaks exportfs
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Pavel Raiskup <praiskup>
Component: nfs-utilsAssignee: Steve Dickson <steved>
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Description Pavel Raiskup 2014-11-21 09:59:14 UTC
I use files in /etc/exports.d/ to control my exports.  That has advantages
when dealing with exports from remote machine using some orchestration FW
(ansible in my case) - no need to parse/edit /etc/exports file directly.

Consider I have 'backend' host specified in /etc/hosts file, I have something
like:

  # cat /etc/exports
  # cat /etc/exports.d/test.exports 
  /data/nfs-points/results backend(rw,no_root_squash)
  /data/nfs-points/lock-builder backend(rw,no_root_squash)
  # exportfs -va
  exportfs: No file systems exported!
  exporting backend:/data/nfs-points/lock-builder
  exporting backend:/data/nfs-points/results
  # echo $?
  1

That ^^ exit value breaks 'systemctl start nfs-server'.  During parsing of
'/etc/exports', the 'exports_errno' is set (and warning is thrown to stderr)
and then it is propagated as program exit value.

  # rm /etc/exports
  # exportfs -va
  exportfs: can't open /etc/exports for reading
  exportfs: No file systems exported!
  exporting backend:/data/nfs-points/lock-builder
  exporting backend:/data/nfs-points/results

So no "easy" solution for this?

Pavel

Comment 1 Pavel Raiskup 2014-11-21 10:46:51 UTC
Created attachment 959651 [details]
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Comment 2 Pavel Raiskup 2014-11-21 11:09:28 UTC
Created attachment 959656 [details]
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Comment 3 Steve Dickson 2014-11-21 12:30:50 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1164477 ***