From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Mar 30 12:37:46 2020 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FF8E2A2A47 for ; Mon, 30 Mar 2020 12:37:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.82.1d4c10000aefc0a.06d5d3861c3f10ac5951b6724236dc99@email-od.com) Received: from s1-b0c6.socketlabs.email-od.com (s1-b0c6.socketlabs.email-od.com [142.0.176.198]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 48rX6S3vSKz3JJd for ; Mon, 30 Mar 2020 12:37:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.82.1d4c10000aefc0a.06d5d3861c3f10ac5951b6724236dc99@email-od.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=email-od.com;i=@email-od.com;s=dkim; c=relaxed/relaxed; q=dns/txt; t=1585571857; x=1588163857; h=content-transfer-encoding:content-type:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:message-id:subject:cc:to:from:date:x-thread-info; bh=toCo7lq1WtPPesMaOUN1v5wf+mnZSDRVAplGEmdt2hU=; b=iImH45VDq5lFHefesIbFejxm9fSjh+msoqFbvTgE1vWEPhJbmeXMzNyGAnwcX7wut7ECXKtkPe6/Lfku72JimOzf90PauJ7yk81CUufQn/9/z0A/kQtsBKOhwiYCUNiMQNO6iMv3gpiMYTRODnKUdKCQ7tkJDRmNNv6YGDaYZ0U= X-Thread-Info: NDI1MC45Mi4xZDRjMTAwMDBhZWZjMGEuZnJlZWJzZC1xdWVzdGlvbnM9ZnJlZWJzZC5vcmc= Received: from r2.h.in.socketlabs.com (r2.h.in.socketlabs.com [142.0.180.12]) by mxsg2.email-od.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Mon, 30 Mar 2020 08:37:17 -0400 Received: from smtp.lan.sohara.org (EMTPY [185.202.17.215]) by r2.h.in.socketlabs.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Mon, 30 Mar 2020 08:37:16 -0400 Received: from [192.168.63.1] (helo=steve.lan.sohara.org) by smtp.lan.sohara.org with smtp (Exim 4.92.3 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1jItfG-0001bL-PJ; Mon, 30 Mar 2020 13:37:14 +0100 Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 13:37:14 +0100 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: "@lbutlr" Subject: Re: NFS exports Message-Id: <20200330133714.99a56bc51c36f809507d7d24@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: References: <4D1B1F02-773C-4390-8E11-C59A4CCE5105@kreme.com> <20200329142545.9a5c14d8a52019cef0a0669b@sohara.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.24.32; amd64-portbld-freebsd12.0) X-Clacks-Overhead: "GNU Terry Pratchett" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 48rX6S3vSKz3JJd X-Spamd-Bar: - Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=pass header.d=email-od.com header.s=dkim header.b=iImH45VD; dmarc=none; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of 4250.82.1d4c10000aefc0a.06d5d3861c3f10ac5951b6724236dc99@email-od.com designates 142.0.176.198 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=4250.82.1d4c10000aefc0a.06d5d3861c3f10ac5951b6724236dc99@email-od.com X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-1.60 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-0.99)[-0.992,0]; R_DKIM_ALLOW(-0.20)[email-od.com:s=dkim]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+ip4:142.0.176.0/20]; MV_CASE(0.50)[]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[sohara.org]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-0.997,0]; RCVD_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[4]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; DKIM_TRACE(0.00)[email-od.com:+]; RCPT_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[198.176.0.142.list.dnswl.org : 127.0.15.0]; IP_SCORE(0.09)[ip: (-0.24), ipnet: 142.0.176.0/22(0.49), asn: 7381(0.25), country: US(-0.05)]; FORGED_SENDER(0.30)[steve@sohara.org,4250.82.1d4c10000aefc0a.06d5d3861c3f10ac5951b6724236dc99@email-od.com]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:7381, ipnet:142.0.176.0/22, country:US]; FROM_NEQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[steve@sohara.org,4250.82.1d4c10000aefc0a.06d5d3861c3f10ac5951b6724236dc99@email-od.com]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 12:37:47 -0000 On Mon, 30 Mar 2020 01:15:14 -0600 "@lbutlr" wrote: > On 29 Mar 2020, at 07:25, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > > On Sun, 29 Mar 2020 06:39:54 -0600 "@lbutlr" wrote: > >> /mnt/backups -alldirs [IP address of remote machine] > >> > >> bad exports list line '/mnt/backups': symbolic link in export path or > >> statfs failed > >> > The extraneous ’s’ was the issue, but there was no /mnt/backups folder or > symlink. Error message is really misleading; “/mnt/backups does not > exist” would be much better. To be fair to the error message author one good reason for statfs to fail is a non-existent path, but we both overlooked that aspect of the message :( It would be nice if instead of a list of possible reasons, the actual detected reason was displayed. But you know - patches always welcome - nobody capable has yet thought it important/irritating enough to make the effort (even if the code change is trivial that's not insignificant) and get it merged. There may even be a really good reason not to do it that escapes me. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith