For rpm-ostree as used by Atomic Host, we synthesize tmpfiles.d snippets for directories, but not files. The goal here is that one can perform a "factory reset" by rm -rf /var/* && systemctl reboot. So currently this requires one to: touch /var/lib/nfs/{etab,rmtab} I think the simplest is to change the code to create the file on demand if it doesn't exist. Failing that, a systemd tmpfiles.d `f` entry would work fine. It's possible at some point we'll explicitly special case nfs-utils in rpm-ostree to do this, but I'd like to have nfs-utils learn about this as well.
Cross linking: https://github.com/openshift/openshift-ansible/pull/2789/commits/5e8e5cb144d032b20f88365799709bcd8f0b83fc
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1293933 ***