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Description of problem: Running "exportfs -av" or "exportfs -rv" does not synchronize /var/lib/nfs/xtab with /etc/exports as it should according to the man page of exportfs. The xtab remains always empty. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): $ rpm -qa | grep nfs nfs-utils-lib-1.0.8-8.fc7 nfs-utils-1.0.12-4.fc7 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. export directory (/etc/export) 2. mount direcotry (other machine) 3. run exportfs Actual results: $ cat /etc/exports /M_EXPORT *(rw,sync,root_squash) $ /etc/init.d/nfs restart Shutting down NFS mountd: [ OK ] Shutting down NFS daemon: [ OK ] Shutting down NFS quotas: [ OK ] Shutting down NFS services: [ OK ] Starting NFS services: [ OK ] Starting NFS quotas: [ OK ] Starting NFS daemon: [ OK ] Starting NFS mountd: [ OK ] $ exportfs -rv exporting *:/M_EXPORT $ echo $? 0 $ cat /var/lib/nfs/xtab $ xtab is empty .. Expected results: cat /var/lib/nfs/xtab ... some conent about exported nfs directories Additional info: I red the man page of exportfs. From this I would expect some content for the xtab file. Is this file simply not used anymore? If so, then a change of the man page would be needed. I searched also for other bugzillas about this problem, and I found only one ... that mentioned this behavior at one comment. See bugzilla #165346 Comment #6.
Created attachment 196031 [details] Purposed patch Interesting... It turns out that when a new style of in-kernel caching was added to both exportfs and mountd, the /var/lib/nfs/xtab file is no longer used. The /var/lib/nfs/etab now the where the export information is kept. I've sent the attached patch to the maintainers for comment.
nfs-utils-1.1.0-4.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
nfs-utils-1.1.0-4.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.