Bug 15686

Summary:	exportfs puts entries into etab in random order.
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Aleksey Nogin <aleksey>
Component:	nfs-utils	Assignee:	Steve Dickson <steved>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Ben Levenson <benl>
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Version:	7.0	CC:	jyh
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Description Aleksey Nogin 2000-08-07 22:21:05 UTC

I have the following entry in my /etc/exports :

/some/file/system	cluster*.mydomain.edu(no_root_squash,ro)
*.mydomain.edu(ro)

Sometimes exportfs would put the no_root_squash entry before the other one
in the /var/lib/nfs/etab and in that case evrything would work correctly,
but in other cases (I could not find out what it depends on, it seems that
changing other lines of /etc/exports randomly affect this) it would put the
no_root_squash entry second and in that case it never gets used (since the
other entry will always match), which is really painful.

So far the only solution I was able to come up with is to remove the second
entry from the /etc/exports for now, but I believe that exportfs should be
fixed to always put entries into the etab in the same order they appear in
/etc/exports.

P.S. Are the NIS netgroups supposed to be supported by nfs-utils-0.1.9.1-1?
I couldn't get that to work, but if it is supposed to work, I will try
again and try to understand what exactly happens.

Comment 1 Cristian Gafton 2000-08-09 02:35:44 UTC

assigned to johnsonm

Comment 2 Aleksey Nogin 2001-05-21 15:15:16 UTC

Jason, have you tried this in 7.1 yet, does 7.1 have the same problem?

Comment 3 thoth 2002-02-06 21:18:20 UTC

See bug 10332 about NFS supporting netgroups in /etc/exports.

Comment 4 Steve Dickson 2002-12-24 17:55:32 UTC

This is not reproduceable in the latest release