destroyed NFS exported filesystems not removed from /etc/zfs/exports

Kris Kennaway kris at FreeBSD.org
Sun Jun 21 12:44:39 UTC 2009


Rick Macklem wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, 17 Jun 2009, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> 
>> mountd was failing to start after an upgrade, with lots of log entries 
>> like:
>>
>> Jun 17 10:19:22 <daemon.err> pointyhat mountd[855]: bad exports list 
>> line /a/portbuild/i386/20090421213917
>> Jun 17 10:19:22 <daemon.err> pointyhat mountd[855]: bad exports list 
>> line /a/portbuild/i386/7-exp/builds/20090422073914/src
>> Jun 17 10:19:22 <daemon.err> pointyhat mountd[855]: bad exports list 
>> line /a/portbuild/i386/8-exp/builds/20080814181849/ports
>>
>> These came from /etc/zfs/exports, and refer to filesystems that used 
>> to exist & were exported, but which have been destroyed.  These were 
>> not cleaned up at destroy time.
>>
>> zfs unshare -a didn't clean this file up either, I had to remove it 
>> and recreate.
>>
>> Also, mountd was treating these as fatal errors at runtime and failing 
>> to start.  I think this is a recent change in mountd, since this used 
>> to work even with the stale entries (the 200808 filesystem was 
>> destroyed in 2008, and mountd has started correctly after numerous 
>> reboots until the upgrade I just did from a May 9 world+kernel).
>>
> Well, the most recent change pre-May 9 done to mountd.c was on Nov. 3. It
> involved adding security flavors to the exports.
> (http://svn.freebsd.org/viewc/base/ is your friend:-)

It worked as of May 9.  What about changes made after May 9?

Kris

> 
> I can't think of how that might have broken things, but I don't know
> diddly about zfs.
> 
> rick
> 
> 



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