Restarting exports disturbs clients

[Mohan Ramanujan]

Actually, changes to /etc/exports under FreeBSD take effect when you 
either kill -HUP mountd.pid or /etc/rc.d/mountd reload|restart on the nfs 
server, but both disrupt existing mounted shares on the nfs client.
What we are looking for is an equivalent of exportfs -r under Linux.  Is 
that available under FreeBSD?  Thanks.

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mohan
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On Fri, 3 May 2013, Daniel Feenberg wrote:

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> On Fri, 3 May 2013, Graham Allan wrote:
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>> On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 02:08:26PM +0200, Bernt Hansson wrote:
>>> 2013-05-03 12:49, Daniel Feenberg skrev:
>>>> 
>>>> When we change the exportfs file on our FreeBSD 9.1 fileserver:
>>>>
>>>>   kill -HUP `cat /var/run/mountd.pid`
>>> 
>>> That seems a bit harsh, try /etc/rc.d/nfsd restart or
>>> /etc/nfsserver restart.
>> 
>> Sending SIGHUP to mountd has always been the right way to have it reread
>> the exports file - should really be much less disruptive than restarting
>> the service.
>
> We have tried both and both disruptive NFS clients.
>
> dan feenberg
>
>> 
>> Graham
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