bin/120288: zfs(1): "zfs share -a" does not send SIGHUP to mountd

[Victor Sudakov]

remko at FreeBSD.org wrote:
> Synopsis: zfs(1): "zfs share -a" does not send SIGHUP to mountd
> 
> State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
> State-Changed-By: remko
> State-Changed-When: Tue Feb 5 11:45:18 UTC 2008
> State-Changed-Why: 
> Imo this is intended behaviour, no where in the manual is stated that
> this should be possible etc. 

However, "zfs unshare -a" does reconfigure mountd!
If this is intended behaviour, then be at least consistent (either you
always reconfigure mountd, or you never do it).

> Also when you add new shares in NFS you
> should also restart mountd/sighup it, 

Not in Solaris at least. A person used to Solaris will be unpleasantly
surprised by ZFS behaviour in FreeBSD.

> so that the new shares become
> visible, why should this be handled differently? 

Because a) one of the purposes of ZFS is easy management and 
b) "zfs unshare -a" *is* handled automatically.

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Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
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