Re: RFC: Patch for mountd to handle a database for exports

On Sun, Jul 23, 2023 at 1:49 PM Peter Eriksson <pen@lysator.liu.se> wrote:

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> Yep. Capturing this in a man page update when the time comes needs
> to be done, I think? (That the V4: line doesn't work in the DB.)
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> Hmm.. I reworked the code a bit more and it seems the V4: stuff does work
> when I try it now. Ah well… I’ll do some more testing.
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> I was going to massage it a bit before passing it up for review; my
> preference (that I think will make it fairly easy to accept upstream) is
> that we simply prefer exports.db if it exists but otherwise don't change
> anything for the folks happy with their current setup -- at least for an
> interim period, at a minimum.
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> Agreed, when I’ve thought some more about it that is probably the best
> way. Btw, it’s enough to do a “touch /etc/zfs/exports.db” for it to start
> working so it’s pretty easy to handle. I’ve updated my patch to do that (I
> also removed the “USE_SHARED” define/check.
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> Anyway, I created a GitHub repo with my code so it can be downloaded from
> a better place than an email on a mailing list :-)
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When you are done playing with it, let me know and then I'll put it
in phabricator (or you can get a phabricator acct and do it yourself
if you would prefer).
I'm referring to the mountd.c patch. I'll leave the ZFS patch fro kevans@.

rick


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> ptrrkssn/sharedb: FreeBSD DB-based NFS exports & ZFS sharenfs support
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> - Peter
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