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Date:      Sun, 29 Mar 2020 14:25:45 +0100
From:      Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
To:        "@lbutlr" <kremels@kreme.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: NFS exports
Message-ID:  <20200329142545.9a5c14d8a52019cef0a0669b@sohara.org>
In-Reply-To: <4D1B1F02-773C-4390-8E11-C59A4CCE5105@kreme.com>
References:  <4D1B1F02-773C-4390-8E11-C59A4CCE5105@kreme.com>

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On Sun, 29 Mar 2020 06:39:54 -0600
"@lbutlr" <kremels@kreme.com> wrote:

> I have created /etc/exports:
> 
> /mnt/backups -alldirs [IP address of remote machine]
> 
> When I start mountd, I get an error in /var/log/messages:
> 
> bad exports list line '/mnt/backups': symbolic link in export path or
> statfs failed
> 
> df -Ph shows:
> /dev/ada1p1    217G     89G    110G    45%    /mnt/backup

	I notice that you are exporting /mnt/backups but the mount
is /mnt/backup. From the error message I speculate that /mnt/backups is a
symlink to the actual mount point, change the export to match the mount and
all should be well.

-- 
Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>



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