Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 07:16:54 -0800 From: "Garrett Cooper" <yanefbsd@gmail.com> To: "Andriy Gapon" <avg@icyb.net.ua> Cc: FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: rc.d/mountd: confusing message (and behavior?) Message-ID: <7d6fde3d0901100716i552420ddja6a59a4938e70fc9@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4968BB5D.8070909@icyb.net.ua> References: <4968AE90.5010004@icyb.net.ua> <7d6fde3d0901100711p70e9a66ahadc3c2570fc6f94b@mail.gmail.com> <4968BB5D.8070909@icyb.net.ua>
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On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 7:14 AM, Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> wrote:
> on 10/01/2009 17:11 Garrett Cooper said the following:
>> On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 6:20 AM, Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> wrote:
>>> $ /etc/rc.d/mountd onestart
>>> /etc/rc.d/mountd: WARNING: /etc/exports is not readable.
>>> Exit 1
>>>
>>> Actually /etc/exports did not exist at all.
>>> And this was not a "WARNING", this was a fatal error, mountd did not start.
>>>
>>> Alsp, should it actually fail like this? I have ZFS and I plan to do
>>> all NFS exports from ZFS, so /etc/exports would never be used.
>>
>> Uh, mountd is used for nfsd, so I'm not sure why you're trying to do
>> this...
>
> I thought that mountd and nfsd (and rpcbind) are still required even if
> exported filesystems are ZFS. Am I wrong on this?
>
>> The reference to /etc/exports is being picked up from
>> /etc/rc.d/mountd on this line:
>>
>> required_files="/etc/exports"
>>
>> and it's picking up the actual `does it exist?' test from:
>>
>> [gcooper@orangebox /usr/home/gcooper]$ grep -A 3 required_files /etc/rc.subr
>> # required_files n If set, check for the readability of the given
>> # files before running a (re)start command.
>> #
>> # required_modules n If set, ensure the given kernel modules are
>> --
>> rcvar required_dirs required_files required_vars
>> eval unset ${_arg}_cmd ${_arg}_precmd ${_arg}_postcmd
>>
>> case "$_file" in
>> --
>> for _f in $required_files; do
>> if [ ! -r "${_f}" ]; then
>> warn "${_f} is not readable."
>> if [ -z "$rc_force" ]; then
>>
>> Cheers,
>> -Garrett
Ok, dumb question -- does ZFS offer the same functionality as NFS? I
thought not...
-Garrett
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