mountd suddenly stopped working

[Jason Hellenthal]

On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 09:07:17PM +0000, Marcin Wisnicki wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Jun 2012 16:21:18 +0200, Ronald Klop wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 30 Jun 2012 15:53:53 +0200, Marcin Wisnicki
> > <mwisnicki+freebsd at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> I have just rebooted an old system after 100 days of uptime and this
> >> came up:
> >>
> >> Jun 30 15:39:00 ghost mountd[1592]: can't change attributes for
> >> /tftpboot Jun 30 15:39:00 ghost mountd[1592]: bad exports list line
> >> /tftpboot -ro -mapall
> >>
> > 
> > Than probably somebody changed something else. Can you provide the
> > content of your exports file?
> > 
> 
> OK, I've found the reason.
> 
> There were two paths exported with same attributes:
> 
> /tftpboot -ro -mapall=nobody
> /vol/tank1 -ro -mapall=nobody
> 
> As long as there is a filesystem mounted on /vol/tank1, above exports
> will work. Since I've disconnected that drive, there was nothing mounted
> this time.
> 
> Apparently mountd does not allow exporting multiple paths from a single
> filesystem on separate lines if they happen to have identical attributes.
> 

Its been like that for a long time. I remember running into this way
back on 6.X and 5.X.

The solution is to:

/tftpboot /vol/tank1 -ro -mapall=nobody

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