Re: Upon rebooting knfsd server: nfs_revalidate_inode fails.
H.J. Lu (hjl@lucon.org)
Tue, 17 Nov 1998 08:38:06 -0800 (PST)
>
> I'm still having problems with knfsd when the server is rebooted.
>
> We use NFS because it's supposed to be stateless - previously (with unfsd) you
> could reboot the server and it would just keep working.
>
> By adding explicit entries for each host on our local net to /etc/exports,
> I've made sure that clients don't get 'permission denied' because of the dodgy
> wildcard handling. Not ideal, but it works.
>
> Unfortunately, we still need to restart most of the NFS clients, as they
> complain of invalid nfs filehandles.
I didn't see that problem when I use -r for kexportfs.
>
> Does anyone else see this problem, have a fix for it, or even a suggestion for
> where I should look?
>
Which Linux distribution are you using? If you use Slackware, it
is broken to begin with. Otherwise, you should use rc.nfsd and
rc.nfsfs in etc in my knfsd package. You should modify it according
to your setup.
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H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org)
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