Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 09:46:02 +0200 From: Edward Tomasz =?utf-8?Q?Napiera=C5=82a?= <trasz@FreeBSD.org> To: Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca> Cc: FreeBSD Filesystems <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: RFC: should automounted file systems be exportable? Message-ID: <20150512074602.GA93864@brick.home> In-Reply-To: <402295202.36197924.1431397070727.JavaMail.root@uoguelph.ca> References: <402295202.36197924.1431397070727.JavaMail.root@uoguelph.ca>
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On 0511T2217, Rick Macklem wrote: > A recent bug was reported related to mountd and the > "automounted" flag. > > Loosely related to this is the question... > Should automounted file systems be exportable? > > I haven't tested it, but I suspect that it would be > broken and the NFS server will reply NFSERR_STALE > after the file system has been dismounted. > > So, should I patch mountd so that it won't export > automounted file systems? Exporting an automounted filesystem doesn't seem to make much sense, I agree, but I'm not sure if adding code to prevent it is such a good idea. If the user asks for it, by putting it into exports(5), it's his fault; the only thing this code could add would be a more friendly error message.
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